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Scientists close to making contact with the Tom Cruise Parallel Universe
Posted on 3/25/15 at 11:03 am
Posted on 3/25/15 at 11:03 am
Because sometimes, slow news days reach the bottom of the 'slow news day barrel'.
Tom Cruise Universe
In seriousness, the below is a real new story about the collider's plans to reach a parallel universe. It's also a little more frightening than connecting with a Tom Cruise universe.
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Tom Cruise Universe
In seriousness, the below is a real new story about the collider's plans to reach a parallel universe. It's also a little more frightening than connecting with a Tom Cruise universe.
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The staggeringly complex LHC ‘atom smasher’ at the CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland, will be fired up to its highest energy levels ever in a bid to detect - or even create - miniature black holes.
If successful a completely new universe will be revealed – rewriting not only the physics books but the philosophy books too.
It is even possible that gravity from our own universe may ‘leak’ into this parallel universe, scientists at the LHC say.
The experiment is sure to inflame alarmist critics of the LHC, many of whom initially warned the high energy particle collider would spell the end of our universe with the creation a black hole of its own.
But so far Geneva remains intact and comfortably outside the event horizon.
Indeed the LHC has been spectacularly successful. First scientists proved the existence of the elusive Higgs boson ‘God particle’ - a key building block of the universe - and it is seemingly well on the way to nailing ‘dark matter’ - a previously undetectable theoretical possibility that is now thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.
But next week’s experiment is considered to be a game changer.
Mir Faizal, one of the three-strong team of physicists behind the experiment, said: “Just as many parallel sheets of paper, which are two dimensional objects [breadth and length] can exist in a third dimension [height], parallel universes can also exist in higher dimensions.
“We predict that gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualised.
"This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.
“This is not what we mean by parallel universes. What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions.
This post was edited on 3/25/15 at 11:05 am
Posted on 3/25/15 at 11:19 am to cokebottleag
I'm jumping on my couch with excitement.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 11:54 am to cokebottleag
Why do you think it's frightening? The portent of a microscopic black hole? The implications that infinite time will have on religion and philosophy?
The idea of a Big Bang has always seemed illogical to me, especially after M Theory came about.
The idea of a Big Bang has always seemed illogical to me, especially after M Theory came about.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 11:56 am to cokebottleag
Way over my head, but good for them
Posted on 3/25/15 at 12:00 pm to cokebottleag
My head hurts now after reading that.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 1:26 pm to Kentucker
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Why do you think it's frightening? The portent of a microscopic black hole? The implications that infinite time will have on religion and philosophy?
The idea of a Big Bang has always seemed illogical to me, especially after M Theory came about.
Because we all know that once you pop that cherry the hole will just keep getting bigger and bigger until one day it swallows you and everything you're about.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 1:29 pm to Kentucker
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The implications that infinite time will have on religion and philosophy?
I don't see how infinite time endangers Christian philosophy, at all. Most of the faith is based upon the idea of the eternal, and the absolute existence of realities and realms that cannot be seen.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 1:44 pm to Agforlife
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Way over my head, but good for them
My thoughts exactly.
They're either doing something awesome or trying to destroy us all.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 1:52 pm to cokebottleag
So here's my question. If they are successful in creating a black hole, then..............can they close it back up if SHTF?
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:45 pm to blue_morrison
Black holes, especially microscopic ones, are unstable. Like everything else in nature, they seek ultimate entropy. They are gone as quickly as they come, leaving markers for scientists to see that they even existed for nanoseconds.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:48 pm to scrooster
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Because we all know that once you pop that cherry the hole will just keep getting bigger and bigger until one day it swallows you and everything you're about.
If it happens that a stable black hole is produced by the LHC, we will be gone so fast that we won't have time to realize what happened. So, no worries.
Posted on 3/25/15 at 2:51 pm to Kentucker
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If it happens that a stable black hole is produced by the LHC, we will be gone so fast that we won't have time to realize what happened. So, no worries.
better than cancer
Posted on 3/25/15 at 7:36 pm to Kentucker
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Black holes, especially microscopic ones, are unstable. Like everything else in nature, they seek ultimate entropy. They are gone as quickly as they come, leaving markers for scientists to see that they even existed for nanoseconds.
Are there any theoretically practical ideas here, though? Like could we maybe some day be able to create a very small, very short-lived-- but larger and slightly more stable than these at CERN-- black hole and use it as a weapon on Earth?
Like could we maybe some day make a pea-sized black hole exist in say Moscow for 1/100,000th of a second that would suck up everything in a 50 mile radius and then cease to exist, leaving nothing but a big hole in the ground, including no harmful residual effects like X-radiation? Or would it, once it started hoovering, continue hoovering past taking in Pluto?
This post was edited on 3/26/15 at 12:24 am
Posted on 3/26/15 at 1:02 am to cokebottleag
Glad that thing is in Switzerland.
That is exactly what happens in The Mist
That is exactly what happens in The Mist
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Wayne Jessup: Yeah, we all heard stuff! Like uh, how they... they thought that there were other dimensions. You know, other... other worlds all around us, and how they wanted to try to make a window, you know, so they can look through and see what's on the other side.
Mrs. Carmody: Well maybe your window turned out to be a door. Isn't it?
Wayne Jessup: Not my door! It's the scientists!
Mrs. Carmody: [sarcastically] Oh, the scientists.
Wayne Jessup: Yes, the scientists! They must've ripped a hole through by accident. That's how their world keeps on spilling through into ours.
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