[Newsbot]

Title: Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning'
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-03-30 22:42:12
Canadian

[tritium]

Atom smasher will help reveal 'the beginning' and 'the end.'

[DrCaleb]

"Chicken Little. Paging Chicken Little. Please pick up a white courtesy phone."

[PostFactum]

It's the beginning of the End)) Here you have 2012)))

[Yogi]

I kinda figured out 'my beginning. I'm much more concerned about'my ending'!!

[Zipperfish]

It'll get us another trillionth of a second closer to teh Big Bang, but not back to the moment of creation/destruction. Dark matter is BS. You heard it here first.

[andyt]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

It'll get us another trillionth of a second closer to teh Big Bang, but not back to the moment of creation/destruction. Dark matter is BS. You heard it here first.

It's amazing what physicists will come up with to make reality fit their theories. Dark matter, dark energy (we know it's there, but we have no way of detecting it). Then there's the idea of the multiverse. In one theory, every time a subatomic particle faces a choice between two states, a new universe is created so that both states can be met. Essentially an infinite number of universes.

Why can't they handle the truth? The universe is mental! http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/clearer.light.pdf

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

It'll get us another trillionth of a second closer to teh Big Bang, but not back to the moment of creation/destruction. Dark matter is BS. You heard it here first.

It's amazing what physicists will come up with to make reality fit their theories. Dark matter, dark energy (we know it's there, but we have no way of detecting it). Then there's the idea of the multiverse. In one theory, every time a subatomic particle faces a choice between two states, a new universe is created so that both states can be met. Essentially an infinite number of universes.

Why can't they handle the truth? The universe is mental! http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/clearer.light.pdf

I think that there could be explanations besides dark matter--for instance if Newton's Gravitational Constant is not, in fact, constant.

And, in defence of theoretical physicists, of all professions they are pretty much teh quickest at discarding one theory of reality in favour of another.

The theory to which you refer is the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics--when a probability wave form collapses, a new universe is created for every potential outcome.

[DrCaleb]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Dark matter is BS. You heard it here first.

andyt andyt:

Dark matter, dark energy (we know it's there, but we have no way of detecting it).

Dark matter is reality. It's pretty much a done deal. If it weren't, we wouldn't keep finding it where theory predicts we will.

It doesn't reflect or emit radiation, but it does affect gravity. If it didn't , galaxies would spin stars out of their edges like special ed kids on a merry-go-round. So we can't see it directly, but we can measure it's effects indirectly.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/

http://news.discovery.com/space/hubble- ... atter.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacolab/2907661913/

And the kicker:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... rk-matter/

As for LHC - it rocks! I can't wait to see what these low power experiments reveal! Or wait for another couple years to see what happens at full power!