Comments on: "Big Bang" Experiment Passes Key Tests

Scientists Hope World's Largest Particle Collider Will Help Explain The Makeup Of The Universe

[abbe91]

"What an ASTRONOMICAL CASE OF FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!!
Posted by StopSocialis at 11:35 PM : Sep 09, 2008"

This article is about science, not the occupation of IRAQ. Please post on topic ...

[abbe91]

Pensacola98 Thank you so much for knowing what Dark Matter is have you called Steven Hamkins yet?

He doesnt know and is waiting for you.

Posted by jerryomara at 04:12 AM : Sep 10, 2008

Do you mean "Stephen Hawking" ?

[piercetheval]

...This is Evil, period. STOP!

[clusterflick]

These are generally more intelligent (intelligentser) comments than usual, which makes me think the vast majority of morons are presently packing their things in a panic and evacuating their homes to go to...ah...to.... Better call FEMA.

[scallywag8]

HOLD ON EVERYONE!!! I THINK I SEE SOMETHING. IT''S BLACK AND HAS A BLACK HOLE IN IT. WAIT!...NOW I''M NOT SURE BECAUSE IT''S BLACK AND I CAN''T SEE THE HOLE BECAUSE IT''S BLACK TOO. OH MY GOD! AM I GOING TO DIE? WHAT IF THERE IS NO GOD IN A BLACK HOLE. WILL I GO TO HEAVEN?

[justspiffy]

This is something I wish we could all watch.
If we listened to a lot of the post here we would
still be in caves.
When the wright bothers created the first air plane people said ''If we were meant to fly God would have given us wings. Grow people science marches on thank
God.

[republic1776]

StopSocialis,
100 years ago, we did not even have buses let alone spaceships.
This is just one of many exciting projects.
In the next few years we''ll be able to prove string theory too.
Not a waste of money.
Money will be made out of all the new technologies.

[pensacola98]

Dark matter simply put is: matter fabric absent of photons. Without photons, no visible light is seen. Dark energy simply put is: the energy which exists and transforms through its many forms in dark matter.

A collider is not required to know this. Photons simply make light visible, just like electrons make electrical current flow possible. Electrons are essential to any atom, but photons are not.

What science endeavors to learn is how energy expresses itself in an environment absent of photons. Some photons are thought to be responsive to light, while others are thought to be responsive to other electro-magnetic frequencies. Since it is known that nearly all elements have "no-color" or invisibility as certain temperatures, scientist hope to learn whether the proper combination of element and photons at a given temperature will create the dark matter and dark energy environment to do something useful, like cloaking at different frequencies.

Turning a photon on or off is thought to be possible with certain combinations of elements, temperatures and frequencies. Some call this transmutation.

[mojo805]

We don''t know what dark matter and dark energy really are, we just have an idea they exist by prediction of the standard model.

So I think it''s the height of hubris for these scientists to dismiss other scientists who question the safety of these experiments because, in reality, we don''t really know a lot about the nature of the universe.

So Stephen Hawking is a genius. That doesn''t mean he can''t be wrong in saying these experiments are safe. He previously believed that time would go backwards in a contracting universe until criticism of this idea led Hawking to re-examine the underpinnings of his model. After that, he repudiated his original idea.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow :)

[shanev137]

If I don''t hear from any of you again, it''s been nice chatting with you.

[jydavis1]

this is out of control..