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People who know nothing on the subject can voice their opinion too.
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« Reply #17 on: 10:12:59, 10-09-2008 » |
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It's 8.50am. The Big Bang should have Banged by now. Are we all dead yet?
If so then I'm pretty disappointed. It could have been a bit more spectacular. As it is, I'm still sitting in my office and correcting counterpoint assignments. That's neither heaven nor hell. So the Catholics were right. We're all in Purgatory...  That would explain a lot about the last 12 months actually... |
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« Reply #18 on: 10:38:28, 10-09-2008 » |
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A thought has occurred to little Milly whilst pondering on all those redundant planets we can actually see through our telescopes. They're all uninhabitable and full of dusty craters and gas. I wonder if civilisations such as ours have kept evolving and made great leaps in scientific knowledge and then arrived at a similar point to ourselves today - then .... .... ..... switched something on and destroyed the lot!  |
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« Reply #19 on: 10:53:25, 10-09-2008 » |
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I personally think black is a very poor decoration - have you thought of brighter colours like magnolia or jumping bean I'm quite taken by the idea that out in the cosmos somewhere there is a "magnolia hole" - an object so dense that it sucks in everything except magnolias. It must be really stupid. Tommo PS Actually I wonder if they laws of physics could allow space for an object that sucks in everything except a particular wavelengths of light. Or indeed, could certain Black Holes support a particular form of Hawking radiation around the light frequencies of Magnolia? |
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« Reply #20 on: 10:59:50, 10-09-2008 » |
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This is magnolia at the 8th hole (whole, hall). This is as close as I can get on the subject. I never knew there were so many holes available for interpretation (if you don't see words like they are written).  |
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« Reply #21 on: 11:47:25, 10-09-2008 » |
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Right then.  As I understand it, before they can proceed with actual particle collision they have to successfully send the beam round clockwise. They've done that this morning. Now they'll have to test it anti-clockwise. If that's successful, then the fun will start! Apparently it could take up to a year to find Higgs Boson. |
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« Reply #22 on: 11:52:05, 10-09-2008 » |
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P.S. I hope he's still alive if they do find it.
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« Reply #23 on: 12:54:07, 10-09-2008 » |
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PS Actually I wonder if they laws of physics could allow space for an object that sucks in everything except a particular wavelengths of light.
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« Reply #24 on: 13:03:50, 10-09-2008 » |
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PS Actually I wonder if they laws of physics could allow space for an object that sucks in everything except a particular wavelengths of light.
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« Reply #26 on: 17:17:25, 10-09-2008 » |
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If all this means I don't actually have to bother with my tax return, bring it on.  I wonder if the chances of annihiliation are increased by the fact that the Revenue currently owe me a refund? I might have known they'd find some obscure get-out... |
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« Reply #27 on: 17:23:21, 10-09-2008 » |
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If all this means I don't actually have to bother with my tax return, bring it on. Nice try Martle. Where do you think black holes come from? |
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« Reply #28 on: 17:33:36, 10-09-2008 » |
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A thought has occurred to little Milly whilst pondering on all those redundant planets we can actually see through our telescopes. They're all uninhabitable and full of dusty craters and gas. I wonder if civilisations such as ours have kept evolving and made great leaps in scientific knowledge and then arrived at a similar point to ourselves today - then .... .... ..... switched something on and destroyed the lot! I think somebody said something similar around the time of the moon landings: "All those craters give me the feeling we've been there before" |
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« Reply #29 on: 17:35:22, 10-09-2008 » |
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I was comforted by this very clear explanation:
The black hole thing is just a publicity stunt of course. The funding of CERN (which is very expensive) depends to some extent on keeping it and its work visible to a wider public, even though most of what goes on there is quite dificult to cram into tabloid vocabulary. When I was working on a sort-of-related music/installation piece a few years ago, my collaborator, the Norwegian artist Per Inge Bjørlo, contacted CERN to ask if he and I could visit and have a look round. The PR people at CERN went so far as to put us up in a hotel in Geneva, and gave us a guided tour which lasted half a day (it's a big place!), which was indeed fascinating. What I found particularly interesting was when Per Inge asked if he could make some footage with his video camera when we were looking round the tunnel and the various cavernous spaces housing the detectors, and was told yes, of course, nothing that goes on at CERN is secret. I wonder how common that is at such installations. |
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