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LHC Spies Hints of Infant Universe
techbeat writes "The big bang machine may already be living up to its nickname, writes New Scientist. Researchers on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, have seen hints of what may be the hot, dense state of matter thought to have filled the universe in its first nanoseconds."
The article seems to say that sufficiently high energy density results in free quarks. I was under the impression that the theory of the strong nuclear force demanded that all observable particles are "colorless," i.e. quarks are never free, but only appear in colorless combinations of mesons and hadrons. Could someone more knowledgeable clarify whether this phenomenon is a violation of the "nature is colorless" law, or whether the article simply does a poor job of explaining a quark-gluon plasma?
i believe we were created. i am considered 'smart' by some. i know that i am important. i believe i am made immortal by jesus. i still believe in laws however, just as long as i don't make them and they aren't hundreds of lines of worthless text. i know a lot more now than i did before. i am having fun here again. and what is wrong living like the world hasn't moved on if you can afford it? the power bill? your children repeating mistakes?
i like technology. hackers were finding me anyways, so posting to /. is not as bad as it seems. i know now how hard the fight for freedom really is.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Not if you build it at high enough latitude!
Or better yet... in space!
Honestly I think this is a good idea. If you can design it such that you don't need to have the ring completely enclosed, it would work great.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Ah, Raenex. We meet again.
First of all, I don't see why an entity that created a universe can't grow a human from a rib. It's strange that you questioned that particular episode in the Bible; was there a particular reason behind that, by the way? As for the Ark, the conceptual build is apparently seaworthy. So far, no problems. Though I'll understand if you reject my first answer out of hand.
The Bible is the "straight dope". I don't see where you're coming from on that point - clarify for me please? As for the translation issues, that's a moot point. You and I know full well that English had no presence at the time of writing, and wouldn't have been worth much to the people of the time. If it's communication errors/mistranslations/lost or dropped meanings and texts thing you're worried about, I think God, being who He is, will be(has been) able to get His point across and steer His letter to humans clear of destruction. He's pretty good at that. You'll notice that, despite the many attempts to rid the world of Bibles, it always seems to reappear(much like Israel - I believe it's the only country to be destroyed/dissolved and reform, ever). Alright, questions answered, and more besides. Have you more?
Humans are terrible replicators of Godly things.
"What if the person/people who started our universe were just a bunch of scientists in their universe?"
Worse, what if our universe is one of a bunch of test-tubes in the drawer of some spotty-faced alien kid? Part of last years science project, now long forgotten about?
What if her mother walks in in a few minutes, finds it and cleanes it out... Will we even realise that our universe ends, never mind how or why?
(The kicker: religious people objecting to the fact that I had to make the alien kid female :P)
Karma? What's that again?
Perhaps. But this begs the question of what came first. The LHC or the universe?