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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang'
buildslave writes "The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on the Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November. The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the center of the Sun."
BAZINGA!
Wouldn't a mini big bang just be a moderate bang?
Evil people are out to get you.
Now show us a real big-bang so the creationists are silenced
So some scientists did some banging at the large hardon collider over the weekend and said it was really hott.
Now, if we can just wait a few billion years, a suitably intelligent species should evolve inside the newly created universe and build a Very Very Very Small Hadron Collider(VVVSHC) in order to investigate the conditions of their early universe....
The window in which you can make stupid comments about playing god and recursing (no tired xkcd links allowed, about either pebbles or carving dice) is now closing. Please get in your cheesy gloom-and-doom scenarios ASAP, and make wild, uneducated suppositions about micro black holes while you're at it.
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Who the fuck is ALICE?
One of the accelerator's experiments, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions...
Well, I guess that answers that.
If we are gods, we can only hope our creations are morally superior to us.
Hey, suddenly Jehovah the blood thirsty desert god makes a lot more sense.
Nah, it's just monday...
NVidia achieved that years ago.
And if we do it all together, is it a gang bang?
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
This is all fine, until Oracle buys the LHC and offers an Enterprise Level "Bang" and a free-bang.
"The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun."
They cloned JLo's arse?
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Never been known to fail..."
They cloned JLo's arse?
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"She may not, but her ass sure as hell does."
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Those are the kind of people we don't want coming to Slashdot anymore.
They never like my story; only those "old guys". Mine is like this: In the beginning there was God. He created a big firecracker for fun. Unfortunately his big bang killed him and he got a Darwin award. Fortunately for us, his big bang created the universe.
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
But it wasn't that great, apparently. Eccentrica Gallumbits said that Zaphod Beeblebrox was "the best bang since the big one."
Mini AND big??? Whoa, man...
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the car, or manufacturer for that matter, doesn't proclaim itself the savior for all mankind either.
Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.
It's just a very nice side-effect.
You've never heard of a Prius? :p
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So, is a mini-big bang just a bang, then?
I hate this constant need for science journalists to oversell and over-hype an outstanding achievement with misleading hyperbole. They didn't create mini big bangs. They smashed lead ions to try to recreate the conditions that existed shortly after the big bang. It's already an impressive enough achievement without cheapening it with sensationalist BS.
Absolutely right no need to over hype it and create big headlines. Just give them credit for the bang-up job.
That's what the Free Mesons want you to believe.