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originally posted by: roadgravel
originally posted by: Fylgje
Just a question; If time/space did collapse, wouldn't the simulation just reset itself?
Is it built to reset or just a blue screen of death. I guess we wouldn't know either way.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: rickymouse
Lol! If you're looking to make $$$, don't go into particle physics!
Anyway, back on topic:
In his preface, Hawking stresses that the possibility of the Higgs boson behaving in such a way is highly unlikely — and that creating the conditions in which the particle would is impossible given the current state of technological development.
^this is the important takeaway, not the over-sensationalized headline.
What kind of work would they be doing if there were a lot less jobs? Washing dishes at Big Boy restaurant? There are a lot of particles in the dishwater.
I'm sure they make more than a school teacher there, unless of course the teacher is a coach of the football team in college.
originally posted by: choos
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: olaru12
Has not happened yet and our universe is doing just fine. One would think some other civilisation on the past would have destroyed our verse with there own version of partical accelerators long, long ago if this was indeed the case.
which could mean one or two things:
we are probably the most advance beings in the universe (looking at the world this is worrisome) or,
theres some sort of force or organisation which magically appears to stop it before it happens.
originally posted by: ErosA433
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: rickymouse
Lol! If you're looking to make $$$, don't go into particle physics!
Anyway, back on topic:
In his preface, Hawking stresses that the possibility of the Higgs boson behaving in such a way is highly unlikely — and that creating the conditions in which the particle would is impossible given the current state of technological development.
^this is the important takeaway, not the over-sensationalized headline.
What kind of work would they be doing if there were a lot less jobs? Washing dishes at Big Boy restaurant? There are a lot of particles in the dishwater.
I'm sure they make more than a school teacher there, unless of course the teacher is a coach of the football team in college.
No, the average wage is actually 10-20K less than a high school teacher for the average researcher stationed at CERN, it also depends upon the country the researcher comes from.
What ignorance like that displays is the lack of ability to realise that most of the money spent is basically injected back into the economy, rather than it being injected into the fat wallet of some pig who does his/her upmost not to even pay tax by running a business deemed too important to fail.
originally posted by: JohnPhoenix
This is more proof that Stephen Hawking is one of the stupidest humans on the planet. He can make silly statements because for him it's all theoretical but that's all it is.. a barely educated guess - Hawking doesn't do, never has done real hands on research - he just reads books and formulates theories based off other peoples work.
One.. just one gigaelectronvolt, is a unit of energy equal to 1 billion electron volts. Hawking doesn't want just 1 or 100 gigaelectronvolt's, he needs 100 Billion gigaelectronvolt's to do his Universe going Poof magic.
Thats 100 billion x's one billion volts! There is No way on this Planet we will ever harness that kind of electricity to perform such an experiment and Hawking knows it.
Hawking as made an entire career based on dreaming up theories that can never be fact check-able in our lifetime.
Ya know what.. I'm glad he's a cripple, he deserves his confinement.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: Char-Lee
Doubtful.
The earth's circumference is ~24000 miles. Imagine the amount of material it would take to build an accelerator that size?
originally posted by: NoRulesAllowed
How is this Hawking's "fault" that we (currently, and possibly never) can harvest this type of Energy? What are you actually blaming him for?
originally posted by: ErosA433
CERN's early stimulus is the reason why computing developed so rapidly through the 70s and 80s, Particle physics's and a small other number of applications where the only people interested in large computing power. These are the people who drove some of the field forward.