how can you say that we have created antimatter when we cant prove it. yes we have theories, and those theories show that we may have made it, but they cant prove it. Theoretically, however, the antimatter that we may have produced, assuming that it exists and we are not just misrepresenting it, it very unstable and is very dangerous, but in these accelerators, it is contained where it can do no harm.and since we know so little about it, and have produced such a little amount, how can we say it doesnt produce gravity?
we can say that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but that also is hard to tell because we have only been around for a few hundred years (at least in our observance of deep space) we have no proof for any of this. also, some parts of the universe may be expanding faster than others. who knows?? nobody. and our measurements are based on very trivial things like brightness of stars and such, hardly concrete.
OK, lets see here. rebuttal time.
1. I did not say that some type of invention wont help us, but that the knowledge of exact details is irrelevant. I, too, am hopeful that some good will come of this giant waste of money. I cannot even begin to speculate what we will discover from these experiments, except maybe a way to kill ourselves, or anti-matter, which could very well kill us too. So yay for discovery, boo for irrelevance.(note: this will all be worth it if we can find a way to contain and harness anti-matter, and you will officially be able to rub it in my face.)
2. You are right, I have no proof of this, but I don't believe in anti-gravity, unless we create anti-matter in this experimentation and I am proven wrong. So, in my book, eventually the universe will lose its momentum, and by dragged back into itself. Simple logic, but no proof yet.
3.Which is why it belongs in religion and only in religion.
4.While I do believe curiosity is good, I believe that it should be aimed at something relevant, such as how to create more food with less land, how to disarm a nuke before it is even launched, how cure cancer or AIDS or maybe more interesting to you, how to make another planet, such as Mars, habitable, so we can continue to expand like jackrabbits without concern for our planet. Instead or looking back to times when we weren't even in existence, we should be focusing on the problems at hand, because those are the ones that are worth the risk.
While the evidence shows that a black hole the size of what they are planning to create wont even be sustainable, there is one thing that has proven itself, chance. There is a chance that a black hole will become self sustainable. There is a chance it will destroy us. Its a small chance, but it exists. While I am all for taking risks, especially scientifically (thats the reason we are here today) this one seems to be unnecessary. Why do we need to know what happened at the beginning of the universe? It has no bearing on our lives at all. We can not benefit from this knowledge in a any way, except perhaps figure out what will ultimately happen in the end of the universe, but not only will that not matter because of the fact that it will be inevitable, and the probability that we humans, or whatever we have evolved into by then, will not be around to see it happen, but I can tell you what will happen when we as a massive clump of atoms meet our fate. A black hole, maybe even the one we will more than likely create, will grow larger and larger until it sucks up most of the entire universe, resulting in it reaching critical mass, and creating another big bang, restarting the whole chain of events that we have observed so far. This theory also explains how our universe came into being, eliminating any need for further experimentation on this matter. Trying to look any farther back than the big bang is not only pointless, but also impossible, and therefore belongs only in religious explorations. So whats the point of me writing all this? Or better yet, why did you read all that? To hear this: THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE EVEN THIS TINY RISK TO FIND OUT HOW WE CAME TO BE. We should have spent the money solving our more current and pressing issues, like poverty.
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we can say that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but that also is hard to tell because we have only been around for a few hundred years (at least in our observance of deep space) we have no proof for any of this. also, some parts of the universe may be expanding faster than others. who knows?? nobody. and our measurements are based on very trivial things like brightness of stars and such, hardly concrete.
OK, lets see here. rebuttal time. 1. I did not say that some type of invention wont help us, but that the knowledge of exact details is irrelevant. I, too, am hopeful that some good will come of this giant waste of money. I cannot even begin to speculate what we will discover from these experiments, except maybe a way to kill ourselves, or anti-matter, which could very well kill us too. So yay for discovery, boo for irrelevance.(note: this will all be worth it if we can find a way to contain and harness anti-matter, and you will officially be able to rub it in my face.) 2. You are right, I have no proof of this, but I don't believe in anti-gravity, unless we create anti-matter in this experimentation and I am proven wrong. So, in my book, eventually the universe will lose its momentum, and by dragged back into itself. Simple logic, but no proof yet. 3.Which is why it belongs in religion and only in religion. 4.While I do believe curiosity is good, I believe that it should be aimed at something relevant, such as how to create more food with less land, how to disarm a nuke before it is even launched, how cure cancer or AIDS or maybe more interesting to you, how to make another planet, such as Mars, habitable, so we can continue to expand like jackrabbits without concern for our planet. Instead or looking back to times when we weren't even in existence, we should be focusing on the problems at hand, because those are the ones that are worth the risk.
While the evidence shows that a black hole the size of what they are planning to create wont even be sustainable, there is one thing that has proven itself, chance. There is a chance that a black hole will become self sustainable. There is a chance it will destroy us. Its a small chance, but it exists. While I am all for taking risks, especially scientifically (thats the reason we are here today) this one seems to be unnecessary. Why do we need to know what happened at the beginning of the universe? It has no bearing on our lives at all. We can not benefit from this knowledge in a any way, except perhaps figure out what will ultimately happen in the end of the universe, but not only will that not matter because of the fact that it will be inevitable, and the probability that we humans, or whatever we have evolved into by then, will not be around to see it happen, but I can tell you what will happen when we as a massive clump of atoms meet our fate. A black hole, maybe even the one we will more than likely create, will grow larger and larger until it sucks up most of the entire universe, resulting in it reaching critical mass, and creating another big bang, restarting the whole chain of events that we have observed so far. This theory also explains how our universe came into being, eliminating any need for further experimentation on this matter. Trying to look any farther back than the big bang is not only pointless, but also impossible, and therefore belongs only in religious explorations. So whats the point of me writing all this? Or better yet, why did you read all that? To hear this: THERE IS NO REASON TO TAKE EVEN THIS TINY RISK TO FIND OUT HOW WE CAME TO BE. We should have spent the money solving our more current and pressing issues, like poverty.