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Originally posted by DaddyBare
CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough
abcnews.go.com
"Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions... These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments."
One of the most fascinating discoveries of our new century may be imminent if the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva produces nano-blackholes when it goes live again. According to the best current physics, such nano blackholes could not be produced with the energy levels the LHC can generate, but could only come into being if a parallel universe were providing extra gravitational input. Versions of multiverse theory suggest that there is at least one other universe very close to our own, perhaps only a millimeter away. This makes it possible that some of the effects, especially gravity, "leak through," which could be responsible for the production of dark energy and dark matter that make up 96% of the universe.
Originally posted by Meatbag
The bummer is, as the article points out, even if ulterior dimensions and/or planes of existence are in fact real, they are most likely un-explorable by ourselves due to light not being present. I am however sure than CERN is most definitely the forefront of science at the moment and will only bring good things to the scientific community, and will not somehow create black holes or the other rubbish perpetuated by scare mongers, and should be pumped up wth some more funding...
That OP article was not enlightening at all, it looked like fluff by an author who doesn't understand the subject matter. He talks about particles possibly disappearing and reappearing but this could just involve additional dimensions in our own universe.
Originally posted by KrypticCriminal
reply to post by Vandalour
Can you remember that scientist that says he was building a machine that would use a cone of high powered lazers to put light in a loop, an thus time in a loop craeting a portal in time itself. What ever happened to that. I was excited about it at the time, but heard no more about it.
Originally posted by DaddyBare
I don't pretend to understand any of this... yet I think its cool as hell!!!
other than reading a few great SCi Fi novels along these lines... I know very little on the subject
I think a good many of us believe there is something else out there hovering on the fringes of what we know... I for one would love it if they could prove what has always been more of a gut feeling to me...
abcnews.go.com
(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 20-10-2010 by DaddyBare because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
I just hope these guys really do understand what they are doing because if they are wrong they could destroy us all.
The story is told that if a certain Russian Lt Colonel had followed proper procedure like he was supposed to, then we might have:
Originally posted by Astyanax
Why? Have we destroyed ourselves yet?
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov... is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who deviated from standard Soviet protocol by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983. This decision may have prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western allies. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had malfunctioned.
In an interview televised in the United States Blair said, "The Russians saw a U.S. government preparing for a first strike, headed by a President capable of ordering a first strike." Regarding the incident involving Petrov, he said, "I think that this is the closest we've come to accidental nuclear war."