The Six Billion Dollar Experiment: Recreating the Big Bang

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The Six Billion Dollar Experiment: Recreating the Big Bang

This ambitious project aims to recreate the conditions that existed less than a billionth of a second after the big bang. The hope here is to get a better understanding of what make sup the fabric of the universe.

At six billion dollars, it is the largest and most expensive scientific endeavor in history. With that kind of money involved they would want to be sure their calculations are correct. I hope they remembered to carry the 1.

Jake Farr-Wharton

Jake Farr-Wharton

Tuesday 10th July 2007 | 08:48 AM
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Fingers crossed they don't create a black hole... if they're willing to spend so much, why not spend some more and perform the experiment in another frickin galaxy.

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Rodney

Tuesday 10th July 2007 | 10:46 AM

Or maybe feed some starving people or fix the environment?

Jake Farr-Wharton

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Thursday 12th July 2007 | 12:46 PM
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Rodney, don't be rediculous. What long term good could come of that?

Seriously though, I sinserely beleive that discovering our origins is of great importance.

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Michael Mitchell

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 12:38 AM

I could careless where I'm from. You want a origin? Read the bible.

This should be used to help find a cure or something...

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Jake

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 08:47 AM

While I agree that the money could be better spent elsewhere, however I hardly think the bible is a source for any reputable information.

The old testament of the bible was written during times when anything unexplainable was explained as being an act of god or gods.

Through the millenias we have used our intelect studdy explain all of those little things that a god had apparently been though to have been responsible for.

So here is the burning question, when everything has been explained, will you still beleive in something you can't see, feel, hear, taste, touch, speak to, relate to, be with etc?

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Gilly

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 02:59 PM

So Jake. What ended the Bubonic Plague.
Have a Guess. Go on.
Here is a tip, ask our resident Jewish friend.
He should be able to fill you in.
I am trying to be very nice so I wont call you an Ignorant FOOL.

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Jason

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 03:12 PM

HTF does something like this cost 6billion and Who TF would authorise it? I reckon that sort of money would fill a few 3rd world bellies. Humanity doesn't have priorities right.

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Jake

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 05:32 PM

Gilly, please enlighten me; apart from quarantine, what ended the bubonic plague?

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Mikey

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 06:18 PM

Stay on topic please guys...remember what this article is about.

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andrew

Tuesday 4th September 2007 | 11:33 PM

agreed with you jason.

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Gilly

Wednesday 5th September 2007 | 02:01 PM

If nobody knew about germs Jake why would people be quarantined.
Of the 600 odd laws passed on in the Torah (@3500-5000 yo Jewish rules from God to Moses) 200 odd are related to Medical Regulations to stop Germs. Before anyone knew what a Germ even was.
The Jews kept these laws and avoided the plague, mostly. The rest of the European society noticed this and adopted these Jewish laws ending the plagues hold on Europe.
Your comments on the Bibles value are naive at best, as are mans attempts to Re CREATE conditions a billionth of a second after the initial " let there be light" statement from God.
A billionth of a second after doesnt answer what happened 1 second before.
See how I tied that in there Mik?

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Rodney

Wednesday 5th September 2007 | 02:10 PM

Reminds me of an old joke:

A team of scientists create a baby in a test-tube and say to God "look, we're just as good as you - we created a human life!".

God turns around and says to the scientists "No! I created man's life from just the clay of the Earth. Come back when you can do that!"

The scientists, sure the can achieve anything with enough time and resources, set to work. After a few hundred years, their descendants finally achieve the goal and create a human life, from clay. Jubilant, they say to God, "Look, we have created life from clay. Now you surely must acknowledge we have surpassed you!"

God turns to the scientists and says "show me". The scientists lean down to pick up a handful of clay to begin the process but God interjects, "Uh aah, stop! Use your own clay!"

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Mikey

Wednesday 5th September 2007 | 03:09 PM

Hah! That is freaking clever.

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Emmy

Thursday 6th September 2007 | 01:30 PM

Personally, I don't believe in any religion for one reason; it's illogical to me.

Anyhow, about this Big Bang thing. I don't care what they do with their 6 billion dollars, as long as it helps the human species understand more about our orgins and the beginning of the universe. God is not an acceptable answer for me. And as long as those scientists don't kill us all somehow, I'm with them %100.

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Klinger

Thursday 6th September 2007 | 02:13 PM

What Emmy said. Just don't kill us. That machine looks like something capable of doing some damage.

Based on that investment discovering our origins must be pretty important to some people.

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Jake

Thursday 6th September 2007 | 02:51 PM

It's a particle accelerator, it's harmless. It accelerated protons to close to the speed of light and sets them coliding against each other. That friction is said to be the cause of the big bang.

Even in empty space, that which is deviod of even dark matter, protons and electrons (the building blocks of everything) reside.

Gilly, fair point, I agree, though I am sure that this will essentially allow us insight into something previously unknown and presumably will be a stepping stone in the direction towards finding out exactly what occurred.

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William

Sunday 23rd September 2007 | 10:18 AM

Has anyone ever seen the result of a big bang or explosion? Well, hear is logic:
EXPLOSION = DESTRUCTION, DISORDER.
With this established take a look around you, you will find order where there should be disorder. Now ask yourself how did it all become so orderly.
When an earthquake strikes or a bomb explodes do you see blocks forming themselves into buildings or do you see buildings crumbling to the ground.
The logical questions a scientist should really be asking is who or what put the blocks together to form the building and for that matter who designed the building (universe) in the first place.
Maybe disregarding the Bible is a fundamental error on the part of the scientist, just maybe, if science was to build its investigations on the information within its context the answers to origin may not be so difficult to find.
One final question, why dose matter decay why is everything around us falling apart nothing lasts nothing it would seem is forever, at least not in the tangible world around us, so why am I and my children and their children’s children destined to die?

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Friday 28th September 2007 | 05:46 AM

Okay guys, here's the truth. Scientist haven't found a cure for the common cold yet; perhaps they should focus on some real work and not play.

Obviously we are not intelligent enough yet to know these answers. God would have had to make our tiny brains larger to hold such massive information. Face it, we don't have the mental capacity yet and if you want to head in that direction for future generations to figure it out then one must start with love.

Once we learn how to really evolve into "civilized" loving people we shall get the answers to nothing...idiots!

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Jake

Friday 28th September 2007 | 08:51 AM

Nedi, what an idiotic statement. Firstly, why would scientists bother to find a cure to such a mundain little bug when prevention is the obvious retardant. Simply washing your hands is adequate to stave off both the common cold and other, more incideious bugs. As for other diseases, such as aids, diabetes, cancer etc, there are cures being developed every day; even with the megre brain capacity that your god has apparently endowed us with (as you so nievely put it). Many of these deseases also have several preventative measures associated with their long term handling.

I wholeheartedly beleive that the money being spent on this experiment could be spent elsewhere, but to answer a question that all, bar the creationists, have pondered. This will go a long way to prove the big bang theory, I assume.

Obviously, there is still the question of what occured the second of or before the universe came into existence, and that is one question that science will endevour to answer in the (near I hope) future.

As science and related fields dispell the supersticious nonsence that many of the population cling to today, the faithful will quickly loose their grip on their taught reality.

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Gilly

Friday 28th September 2007 | 03:56 PM

God created light. Big Bang. Simple Jake. That theory ties in well with the Bibles teachings. Perfectly

What the Bible states in Genesis is just about exactly the order scientists believe the universe came into being. This does not contradict what us fundamentalist Christians (you like that label dontcha) believe.
It all comes back to the theory of evolution Jake. You have nothing till anybody can prove evolution.
Millions are starving and dying of disease in the third world every day but this big bang thing, way cool.

You are not a very tolerant person are you Jake.

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Jake

Saturday 29th September 2007 | 07:05 AM

You're a crackup Gilly, I'm as tolerant as I need to be.

I wasn't saying that the people that wrote the bible were dumb. They were most likely philosophers and bards. Likewise gilly, you have nothing until you can prove the existence of your god. I dare say that the way that science is progressing, evolution, or some other more concrete theory will be proven, long before you have proof of your god... more proof than the bible of course...

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Gilly

Saturday 29th September 2007 | 11:18 AM

Jake SAID-----
You born again evangelical christians have your own set of idiotic laws, you can hardly claim infalliability.
End quote

Go on Jake prove yourself Ignor- oops, sorry, naive again.
You tell me my Laws.


This is from another thread Jake. Can you back it up or are you so full of crap that you dont think its necessary

I want you to answer this Jake. Your ignorance is a badge you wear with pride. The utter stupidity of this comment does justice to your intelligence. Back it up Jake.
You are so weak it is a sad indictment on yourself.
Go on Jake. Tell me what you base this STUPID comment on PLEASE.
I never claimed infallibility, just back up your STUPID comment Jake.
Come on.

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Gilly

Sunday 30th September 2007 | 03:10 PM

Come on Jake. I know you are there.
All I want from you, is that you tell me the IDIOTIC laws that fundys like me believe,.
I am sure there are plenty of "NANCy" type names to describe you and for what you said on the computer.
I will wait on an apology, Naa I'll just let it go.
It is hardly worth it.

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William

Wednesday 3rd October 2007 | 04:36 AM

Proof of God is all-around us, the Bible is not about proof it’s about how to get right with God.
The Evolutionist and Big bang scientist believe what they believe out of a pure disregard for their surroundings, to the point where they present their beliefs as science-fact and not as to what it is or what they are, science-fiction.
When it comes to the debate between the religion of science and the religion of God, I'm going to take my chances with God. (Do not be mistaken science without God is based on the religion of secularism only they daren’t call it religion)
Time is not forever, and as I said everything around is decaying.
Without God there is no morality and without morality none of us are safe not even our children, as everything becomes fair Game.
There is hope even to those wasting $6 billion on disproving God, but you have to get right with God and that can only be done through his son Jesus Christ. If you take the time to read the Bible this becomes clear and certainly more believable than evolution, which to all intensive purposes is becoming a disproved theory not fact theory, only they don’t want to let it go because what’s left is God, and facing up to this reality is to all of us fearsome, when we no we must answer to him and not to ourselves and what we think.

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Nate >.>

Thursday 20th March 2008 | 07:54 AM

Yay, yet ANOTHER thread that's been hijacked by a science vs. religion argument.

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phily880

Sunday 13th April 2008 | 03:13 AM

...in response to this comment by Rodney. If this experiment works they could find the way to turn one matter into an other matter there for they could theoreticly turn dust into food. That would sovle world hunger. So maybe you should understnad somthing before dismissing it.

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Martin

Monday 19th May 2008 | 01:47 PM

...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. [Comment Deleted: For being a Grammar Nazi (off-topic)]

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Daniel T. Pray II

Thursday 29th May 2008 | 09:43 PM

...in response to this comment by Michael Mitchell. It makes sense to find the actual "stuff" that makes things what they are...(granted, it is alot of money that could be used on something else) but, think about it, if we find these answers then it wouldnt be impossible to create life once we find the ingriedents...(then we would be god, wouldn't we?)....wouldnt this mean that in a sense we could recreate the resources we use up....nothings impossible unless you can prove it.

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Daniel Pray II

Thursday 29th May 2008 | 09:46 PM

...in response to this comment by Jake. Jakes got the right idea

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Daniel Pray

Thursday 29th May 2008 | 09:50 PM

Leave religion out of this...its non-sense & child like to say gods the answer for every thing.....If we are gonna talk like that then hey why should we find the cure for cancer, I mean if god wanted us to find the cure for cancer he would never have let it exist....reliogion is just fantasy.Use your brain not some unreliable storys.

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Daniel Pray

Thursday 29th May 2008 | 10:14 PM

...in response to this comment by . Nedi....brain wash little kids with your non-sense before they realize what the world is really like & about. let these guys do what they want with the money...if you dont like it then you go find the cure for the common cold....besides isn't "god" gonna come down in a few years & cart you nuts into heaven...I wonder how you get there (in his pocket)?
No wait let me guess he is just gonna look up with his arms streched out & say "destination heaven", & poof your there???........ silly talk just silly talk.

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Sarah

Friday 30th May 2008 | 09:50 PM

Well, i know where i came from, read Genisis, its that simple people, i probly dont know half as much as i should about this thing, and i think nobody but the ones who are doing this experiment know exactly what we need to know, and yes this world is a sick sad place.

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unknown

Friday 30th May 2008 | 10:01 PM

...in response to this comment by Daniel Pray. daniel,
i think you should rethink what you've said, read a bible, listen to what he tells you
why do people always say that, "god wouldn't have done that if he...." well ya know what, he didnt, when we humans currupted the earth by NOT LISTENING TO GOD, we created the evils of this world, i cant wate till he takes me to heaven, you have no idia how awsome it will be do you? im going to pray for you and if you want to talk to me, NOT argue who is better or whos right, but have a intellagent conversation about this........



feel free to express here about religions just please dont be nasty

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Debra

Saturday 31st May 2008 | 02:54 AM

Mikey, Thank you for bringing this forward!

I am completely captivated by this experiment and have been since I first heard about it - a PBS, Discovery or some TV show a while back.

It seems to be the largest scale experiment ever set up that I have heard of. It is quite the international cooperative effort which is saying something about the field of science - the ability to work together towards a common goal. When I watched the program all I felt was keen interest and excitement! What this must feel like to the fortunate few who have the opportunity to participate! This is truly amazing! I feel very frustrated about my lack of knowledge in this area and lack of ability to articulate what I only remotely understand they are trying to accomplish. I hope others will elucidate this experiment for the rest of us. (The video no longer available?) Because the video is no longer available here, did it address the date for the beginning of the experiment?

And while I am excited, considering the scale of this thing, I AM wondering if ALL the safety issues were completely addressed. One would like to think so...

As to the money being spent on this experiment - I suggest we all think about the way we choose to spend our own money before questioning how others choose to spend theirs. I know that sounds sanctimonious but if we want to aid in 3rd world countries, find a cure for cancer, etc., there are avenues readily available for all of us to do so. Wonder what would happen if readers of RL threw down $5 in one month towards world hunger??? The super collider experiment was financed by a collective effort if I understood correctly.

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-->LJF -->

Monday 2nd June 2008 | 12:22 PM

OMG!? What do all (I presume, after all there are a lot) religions have in common? They are based on fantasy (as already stated). They rely on people drawing parralels to the real world and then saying, "look, see the bible (or any other religious text) is right!" Wow, I think I'm going to be sick.

Try looking at the world OBJECTIVELY! Religion clouds the mind and inhibits questioning and challenging. Read the bible? How about a REAL book based on EVIDENCE and FACTS.

Question Everything - Believe Nothing

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barnese

Monday 2nd June 2008 | 12:53 PM

The statements about what in fact will actually happen undoubtedly said by the 5000 or so scientists sounds like the similar term, giving an excuse to go ahead with this rediculously stupid expensive project, personally I think if the government wanted to experiment with all our lives in there filthy rich hands of greed and risk the entire planet and human life for a dumb reason and so what if they find out what happened in the begining because it wont make a difference to the people out there knowing how it all started in the begining. The only difference will be for the greedy scientist, to put there needs first to prove religion wrong and to profit in the end. The money could have been used to fix third world differnces and to think everyone goes on how the planets warming because of us.Six billion is alot of solar water heaters and power resouresl, but no wasted down the drain on a potenially end of the earth

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michael montgomery

Tuesday 3rd June 2008 | 11:03 AM

...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. This machine can not create a black hole. The energy created could potentially create one, but it will not be able to successfully sustain enough gravitational pull or have enough of an energy supply to suck in anything. I undertand why you would be concerned though, this is a serious machine! im only 15 so im not sure this is at all a legitimate reason, but i do have a decent understanding of many science feilds.

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LJF

Tuesday 3rd June 2008 | 01:33 PM

...in response to this comment by michael montgomery. It is quite big though, it should be pretty amazing ... I mean, even if it just collapses ... it's big enough to collapse spectacularly!

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barnese

Tuesday 3rd June 2008 | 01:40 PM

Are you serious a 27 kilometer science project, is it something to be called a minor thing that wont do much. Its massive, they wouldnt have created it the way it is with its size to be weak and not dangerous

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Jorgey

Wednesday 4th June 2008 | 03:25 AM

(((WTF!!!))))) WHAT THE HELL. THERES A FOOD SHORTAGE GOING AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD IS ALMOST IN A STATE OF DEPRESSION AND THESE FUCKERS!!! ARE GONA FUCKING SPEND SIX BILLION DOLLERS SENDING NUKES INTO SPACE!!!!? TO MAKE A EXPLOSION? HOLY FUCK. I THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE DUMB BUT THIS IS JUST OVERLY FUCKING RETARDED.

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Monday 9th June 2008 | 01:04 AM

I find it rather hilarious that focus of the religious folks on here is the cost of this experiment. 330 million dollars are spent on the Iraq war everyday, and as of last November, totaled 604 BILLION dollars. Hm, wonder how many social programs and bellies that would feed. It blatantly obvious you guys feel threatened by scientific advances because it is seemly unraveling your reality as a byproduct of meaningful research. If you truly understood the implications of success, you might be singing a different tune. So this whole argument that is it isn't worth the money is rather ludicrous. I guess blowing up Iraqis and Iranians is more important than our origins.

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Jake

Tuesday 10th June 2008 | 08:13 AM

...in response to this comment by Jorgey. Jorgey, I was not aware they were sending nukes into space, please feel free to enlighten us though. The experiment is to build the bigest hadron super collider ever built and uncover what the universe was like a billionth of a second after the big bang.

Also, with the utmost respect for those people starving around the globe, the people of the world can only do so much, the govenments need to be willing to accept help before any money or resources are devoted.

This scientific experiment is pretty damn important from a scientific point of view... assuming that it doesn't tear a hole in the universe or create a black hole.

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LJF

Tuesday 10th June 2008 | 11:34 AM

O ... M ... G .... .. ... Like has already been said, a HELL OF A LOT of money is being spent per year on blowing things up already, and this (hopefully) has a SMALL chance of blowing stuff up and costs less so therefore by that line of argument it's not as bad as ... a lot of things! And it's to the advance of science so I'm behind it all the way (even though SOME aren't ...), hell, it's better going out spectacularly than dying of hunger anyway! Bring on the Blackhole! Maybe we'll take Mars with us! Who knows? But I sure as [certain four letter word beginning with 's'] want to see it happen.

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Barnese

Tuesday 10th June 2008 | 11:49 AM

firstly i am aware of all wars and there costs they are a waste of time there is one purpose for the war and that is greed of America to control the Arabian oil fields thus to control petrol prices. While stock piling there own resources they want to take other countries resources so they are the ones with all the oil.Then they can charge people what they want.And have all the money to obtain global domination. You didnt hear this from me dont forget. Any way no ones saying the war is ok but the project is not. Far as Im concerned people are first no one like to suffer a death of no food. Those of you that think Its ok to put people last then raise your hand cause you proven that you think selfisly. come on tell me Im wrong on all this cause its obvious whats happening to people out there they are greedy. the language level of a few comments is below dirt level must be some uneducated people trying to maintain calm

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Jorgey

Tuesday 10th June 2008 | 12:11 PM

OH IM A (((FUCKING RETARDED IDIOT!!!))) I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE IN A BIG CIRCULAR NUKE BOMB THAT COULD HAVE BEEN 27 KS LONG BLASTED INTO FUCKEN SPACE AND WE WOULD BE FUCKEN BLOWN IN TO A BIJILLION FRAGMENTS THAT WOULD PEIRCE FUCKEN GODS EYE IM SO SORRY IM A SUPER UN INTELLIGENT AS I ONLY WENT TO YER NINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL......

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Jake

Tuesday 10th June 2008 | 01:15 PM

...in response to this comment by Jorgey. Thats ok, I forgive you.

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Albatross

Friday 13th June 2008 | 03:36 PM

*sigh*
Has it occured to anyone that the people working on this are some of the most brilliant physicists the world has ever known? I think they'd understand the risks and potential of the machine just a little better than the glorious members of the interwebs. If it was actually dangerous they wouldn't be building it would they?
The speculation about it potentially creating a black hole is rediculous on the grounds that it relies on a praticular theory that's unproven and not widely accepted (for a reason) and even if it DOES create a black hole, it will be tiny (were talking molecular level, not even swallowing a pins head worth of matter) and incredibly short lived. Black holes are serious mojo, a twenty-seven kilometre particle accelerator isn't even close to the amount of gravitational force required to create an actual black hole, that's the business of stars collapsing, not piddly little ape-men playing with magnets.
As for the cost, 6 billion dollars is nothing, we waste far more on completely useless things every year, for example the 2004 olympics were estimated to cost the greek economy 10-12 billion dollars (US), imagine how many mouths THAT could have fed, and THIS is not completely useless.
I won't bother to spell out the potential benefits of it because, well their potentially limitless. The understanding of physics we can gain from this will be immense, opening up new potentials for chemistry, medicine, construction, really everything. We can't know exactly what new technologies the knowledge will unlock because we don't know what were going to learn yet, but that's science, you don't start with an answer and find questions that fit it (*cough* religion *cough*), you start with questions and find answers that fit them.

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Thursday 7th August 2008 | 09:08 AM

I love apples.

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Thursday 4th September 2008 | 05:19 PM

Why bother trying to find out what the universe was like a billionth of a second after the big bang? To me it seems pointless... You could use a cheaper alternative in your own garden with a slow motion camera and a firework. Save money, feed starving children and fix the hole(s) in the damn o-zone layer!

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John Smith

Thursday 4th September 2008 | 05:36 PM

As for this god business, personally i dont believe in it BUT... the universe is full of unanswered question and strange things. There may well be a "god" so if you cant prove there is no "god" then why deny existance of such a being? We havent seen aliens from another world but we dont deny their existance....

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anon.

Friday 5th September 2008 | 08:58 AM

The fact that $6 billion dollars can be spent on a single experiment (presumably by the USA (a country already in a colossal amount of debt to the big 'Unknown')) rather than improving the world we live in, pretty much sums up the ignorance of our age.

A world 'run' by a Puppet (Bush) that everyone knows is just the face of a hugely corrupt and powerful government. . . we all know this but still play along.

Before the world spends stupid money on (in my opinion) pointless experiments, we should be improving by uncovering corrupt government'

Show me someone who can do that, and show you an extremely intelligent person.

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Dang

Friday 5th September 2008 | 06:03 PM

...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. I think the experiment is today at 12noon GMT. So I guess we are all about to find out!

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John Smiths Father

Saturday 6th September 2008 | 02:31 PM

Yay time for the world to end, i would just like to say i had a lovely time and wish you all the best in your future endevours lol

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poodle and chiwawa

Sunday 7th September 2008 | 04:09 AM

we dont wanna die !!!!!!!!!

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Rachel

Tuesday 9th September 2008 | 03:36 AM

Why would they risk destroing the earth? Personally I say dont do it. At least we dont die until a another thousand billion years. PLEASE DONT DO IT! If you want to live dont do it!

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Kim OJ

Tuesday 9th September 2008 | 04:35 AM

The LHC will start Wednesday morning local time, and I for one am excited to see what they discover.

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Abi

Wednesday 10th September 2008 | 04:11 AM

This experiment is tomorrow morning at 8.30am, i believe and i think that it is very interesting what the scientists are trying to do, however i dont think they should switch the machine on, as i don't think any of us want to die tomorrow morning. I also think that the $6 billion could have gone to a better cause than it has done. Like trying to find the cure for cancer.

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Kim OJ

Wednesday 10th September 2008 | 01:49 PM

...in response to this comment by Abi. 8:30... maybe I will not have to be at work at 9 anyway! Sweet!
Seriously people, nothing dangerous is going to happen, they are just recreating an experiment that happens in nature all the time for observation purposes.

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cam

Monday 15th September 2008 | 10:20 PM

...in response to this comment by Gilly. I find it very hard to destinguish science and spirit. God is the universe. Evidence of God is our scientific findings...and finding whether the Higgs Boson exists or not, to someone like me, is of the same magnitute as finding out whether God exists or not.

Science and religion aren't different. If God really exists then why would science be separate from him, because we already know that scientific findings are factual. So if God's existence is factual...then they are the same.

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PRof. DDD

Tuesday 30th September 2008 | 12:57 AM

cam is Right
ask yourselves what is god .the bible states anything and everything
now ask yourselves what is energy science states anything and everything
energy is everlasting energy can change shape,smell and even sound
science theories believes before time and matter there was just a big ball of energy in
the universe and then the big bang happend and in one trillionth of a second the
universe we know today was created i believe God and energy are the same thing
god created alpha and omega heavens and earths the bible and science are very similar when it comes to describing the CREATOR when we die we transform into a different type of energy
a form of energy that is beyond what the eye and braind can comprehend
if more people would think outside the box we would already have found our answers
to life . but no people are stuck in the box and are too damn predictable . there is always one person to change the perspectives of a society and that one person is a person who
not only thinks outside the box but knows how the box was made.
my point is that god exists . forever is inevitable when it comes to energy=everything=GOD

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Gargus C

Tuesday 27th January 2009 | 01:34 PM

Interesting, did the experiment happen already? The blackhole didn't happen or the strange matter spreading on to other atoms, turning our planet into a strange planet was the two of the theories I watch on the discovery channel.

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George Stathopoulos

Monday 16th November 2009 | 10:48 PM

Hi, after doing come searching on the web for the 'six billion dollar experiment' I cam across this. I love how the troll on here is making religious people look bad, don't you know that some of the very theoretical physicists working on the project are agnostic, pantheistic, and some ever religious. Religion doesn't have to be illogical, and no, it doesn't say God created everything. The vast majority of Christians I have met support science such as evolution and Big Bang Theory. Truth is, as a strong agnostic, I'm tried of seeing humans (like said in documentary you posted) being such a small civilization being able to only see 6 billion light years (which is nothing) 0ut into space with no other form of possible life, and assuming they know everything about everything. Judging, God (or any creator), a supernatural realm, or concluding that they know everything, regardless that so much paranormal exists (such as the creation of the universe) that we still fail to understand. As for the last couple of posters before me, believing science is God and God is everywhere would consider you guys pantheists. Anyway, I'm more interested in quantum physics that this, so:

yes six billion dollars is a lot, but not merely enough compared to the proportions given to biological or chemical research. Also how much do we waste on resource wars, and capitalistic ditherings? Hell, the bonuses of the employees at Goldman Sachs for a single year is probably 3 times that of what it cost this experiment. If we wish to feed world hunger and aid research in diseases, then please take it from them, not a research project that's been years in the planning by the most reputable scientists in answering some of the most significant questions in the world of science.

As for a black hole, well they would be epically miniature and the possibility of them growing is little to none. But that's what scares me, the "small possibility part". If there's one thing theoretical physicists are jumpy about, it's just that predicting things. Just 10 years ago, weren't physicists saying extra dimensions, and two forms of universal radiation, and electromagnetism in particle form were near impossible? But look now. Like they say we're experimenting into the unknown that has never occurred before, so how would we know the outcome and whether they pose a danger or not, and also how they have absolutely no back up or solution planned if things do go bad. I only think it would be funny if this catastrophe were to happen around December of 2012 which is going to be the climax year of experiments at LHC.

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Andres Fuentes

Wednesday 13th October 2010 | 04:35 AM

Fuck this project if it goes wrong its gonna fuck our earth up into pieces. There are just some things that man isnt suppose to know. Big bang is just a THEORY and your never gonna prove it cause its bullshit. what was the universe before this big bang and also why isnt there any other explosions goin on creating other universes ???

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Henk V

Wednesday 13th October 2010 | 10:36 AM
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Huh? I thought people stopped playing lemmings 2 decades ago.


Andres, the big ring has fired at energies greater than the doomsayers have predicted the collapse of the world. It was a pity you missed the announcement.


I suppose you can always hope for dec 2012 for the peanut gallery of the world to say "i told you so!".

In the mean time, I'll make a huge profit selling my specially marked packs of peanuts.

Yep, the "parousia peanut company" is making a roaring profit from the "enlightened".

the best before Dec 21, 2010 stickers are a sure fire seller.

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Henk V

Wednesday 13th October 2010 | 10:37 AM
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of course my genetically engineered "son of lamb" range is about to hit the streets. It can hang around for hours in the sun and still be kosher.

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Anonymous

Wednesday 24th August 2011 | 12:00 PM

...in response to this comment by Jake Farr-Wharton. Yeah I agree with you. But I believe it all makes sense. Despite spending that much money, they will at least know if their calculations are correct and they can also find out about the creation of our universe. If it is a complete waste of money, then at least they know. Plus, we can't just spend heaps of money to do it in a different galaxy. For one, we don't have the resources to complete such a mission, and another. If a black hole were to be formed doing this experiment, they won't do it if it will destroy our planet. They are just discovering how our universe was created.

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Muddie

Thursday 25th August 2011 | 02:19 PM

...in response to this comment by Anonymous. The "experiment" has paid itself over by about 3 orders of magnitude in economic benefit.

What black hole?

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