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  • very informative and brilliant video

  • Nice, Very Good this amazing

  • Nice to video and I Support You

  • PROBLEM IS NOBODY REALLY KNOWS. And we all act as if these (always epistemologically arrogant) particle physicists do. The should have all be forced first to study biophysics, complexity, earth physics, geology, biology, neuro-studies and consciousness (even finance), in order to get in touch with reality, planet, human nature, etc. and grasp some bits of the real context they live and work in. Perhaps they would then become a bit more humble and aware of the immensely complex world around them.

  • nice

  • Mantap

  • SO CUTE

  • Interesting video

  • Great stuff

  • awesome 

  • you never never know if you never never go

  • @RealityEyes01

    Wright. Sorry I did not mean to degrade your IQ, but just put it into perspective within a framework of basic real science and some valid data for the topic of our dicussion -as much as can be done here anyway- so Prof Krauss explanation of the microwave background image, but obviuosly that don't count to you, and claiming God exists because the Universe exists IS what's lame. I am sorry but if I you are wrong, I can't do anything about the way that delussion makes you feel.

  • @RealityEyes01

    What is just theories? Time is a mere theory to you? if so... I'm done here. "For all YOU know time might not exists", now THAT'S a reasonable way to put it. Claiming your limited knowledge on such a subject matter is everything we've got is what's foolish. The U means UNIVERSE. And NOPE you are confusing "u"niverse"s" with the U or Cosmos, or -in layman's terms- "the ultimate group of STUFF", be that many universes with different laws of physics than these of "ours" or not.

  • @DrErkencho

    ..you clearly have only limited -intuitive- knowledge of what you're talking about. "Things cannot come from nothing?"; "the Universe must have a begining, hence God exists?"... nonsense. Question for you, why do you think you with your limited knowledge can assert the right answer out of mere wishful thinking?.

    What this video, please. "A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009" is a vid that's over 1hr long, but hey, the U deserves AT LEAST that much respect. ];)

  • @RealityEyes01

    Nope- Time is just a human perception as space and the three dimensions we see of it. Time is real.

    More over, everything is made out of time, yet the same cannot be said of space. It takes a trained mind to see this facts, our brain has evolved to be practical in the world we lived, not to grasp the deep down core of cosmology with of the back intuition.. so don't feel bad if you don't at first. Remember the U is all, so there is NO outside the U as religion often likes to bluff

  • @RealityEyes01

    The "begining point" --of view is the error there. See the universe "started", and so did time.

    Before time there was NO time. I guess 500 chars won't do to explain that, but is kinda like this; the universe has a "begining, but, it does not". It is an infinite regression to 0. It is clear there was no time before the expansion, in fact the expansion itself IS time. If you take the God shortcut you have to say HE is timeless... which is nonsense, for why can't the U be so then.

  • I'm sure it's safer than religion.

  • Damn those guys are smart! Respect for them!

  • You need the mass of around 20 suns to make a black hole......I think we're safe enough letting them play with a few particles and relatively small amounts amounts of energy.....Now, everyone go back to the Nibiru videos.

  • You need the mass of around 20 suns to make a black hole...I think we're safe enough letting them play with a few particles....Now, everyone go back to the Nibiru videos.

  • So sit back , relax and let the physisits do their job. ofcourse based on theory and particles they never "observed" bur telax they KNOW what they are doing

    morons

    We sat back and relaxed watching Monsanto creating huge problems, but i am sure this is different. You know... these are physisits with PHD's LOL

    morons

  • So sit back , relax and let the physisits do their job. ofcourse based on theory and particles they never "observed" bur telax they KNOW what they are doing

    morons

  • Sadly Scientists have more faith in the Higgs particle which has never been seen or observed then to simply believe that God created the universe

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  • I wonder if the shattered proton particles shall re-arrange themselves back into a proton once the bang has happened.

  • @Mooknuc1 Please specify what you it is that I've said that you doubt or disagree with. I do pay attention to developments in the field of particle physics. And with all due respect, you are seeming a bit on the abjectly ignorant side, right now.

    What is your evidence that some danger exists?

  • Ahh, reading conversations like this gives peace to my heart :3

  • They should have made it a square... That circle will never work! .....stupid particles

  • Repent!! The end is near!! I have a feeling that what will happen in 2012 has something to do with this....

  • omg, they said that even if it did create a black hole, it would die in about 3 seconds because black holes get smaller when they arnt feeding, and at the size it would shrink into nothing by 3 seconds, because there is NO stray particle in the collider.

    im 11, and i know more than these dumbass's.

  • @shoshanish

    So you think they have just two particles whizzing around in different directions to collide? A little black hole will be great for sucking up the other particles whizzing around...!

  • @Wh47n0w1517 yeah, i do think that, because thats what it is.

    they send particles in, 2 at a time.

  • @shoshanish

    They are not that clever, they can’t just send in two particles at a time and in the hope they collide.

  • @Wh47n0w1517 you know what, its not that important.

    end of conversation.

  • @shoshanish

    It’s only important if black hols are created by the LHC, you wrongly claimed there will be no stray particle in the collider and so a black hole will not survive. You may as well believe in the unproven Hawking radiation and be like the scientists who believe in the unproven Hawking radiation will save the World from any black holes..!

  • @Wh47n0w1517 END OF DISCUSSION!

  • @shoshanish

    If you can’t take it then maybe in the future you should research more before making comments on movie clips like this one and maybe you should stop calling people like bloodeyez2 a dumbass..!

    Some of the things bloodeyez2 stated about the scientists is true and that is regardless what others think because they are not entirely right and fallen for the hogwash from the scientists.

  • @Wh47n0w1517 what part are you not getting about this?

    end of topic.

    stfu.

    (also, whothefuck is bloodeye?)

  • @Wh47n0w1517 oh wait i see him..

    wtf, he didnt say nothing ut trash, he said it was launched 1 year ago, bu it was launched about 5 years ago.

  • @shoshanish

    The LHC was not launched five years ago, it was in 2008 proton beams circulated the LHC without colliding anything and closed down because of damage, the LHC was launched again in 2009. But that is not the statements bloodeyez2 made about the scientists.

  • @Wh47n0w1517 also, i will block you if you keep talking, so stfu.

    END, THE, FUCKING, CONVO.

  • @shoshanish

    It does not bother me if you block me, but you may need to change your profile age from 21 to 11. You’re acting like a 11 year old for sure, but thought you were joking when stating in the comments you were 11 and when your profile is stating 21 at the moment..!

  • @Wh47n0w1517 ill change it to 13, because thats how old you need to be to have a profile.

  • Their right, it doesn't create black holes. What it does is open a portal to a hostile universe where aliens try to invade and destroy our planet. (Half-Life ftw).

  • ok so basicly theres no chance in hell this thing will make a black hole. My friends an idiot

  • God made the universe!!!

  • @CristyFIare no. no your magical wizard from heaven didnt make the universe

  • @CristyFIare yes! but how made god?

  • @lexmixjay who**

  • @lexmixjay how i go in heaven .. i know how create the universe :)

  • @CristyFIare Think you'll find it's physics. Sorry break your God delusion bubble

  • "Science. It works, bitches!" --abstrusegoose

  • 8 BILLION, haha thats like 8 THOUSAND people all putting 1 MILLION $ towards it.who funded this,who gave it the go ahead ????? astonishing! surely thats by far the most expensive thing ever built, 8BILLION $

  • @MurkyMists, Don't forget this was before Wal*Mart started stocking colliders in their larger stores.

  • @MurkyMists ever heard of nuclear fusion reactor or international space station?

  • @MurkyMists The most expensive thing ever built? Fuck, you're ignorant.

  • @monkeyology1 It's a false opposition, there is enough money for both.

  • @monkeyology1 yeah, investing in science is not a good thing. when was the last thing science has ever done for mankind? better leave it to the hand of god

  • @monkeyology1

    Yeh but you should see how much they spend on wars.

  • @monkeyology1 why not take the billions from your countries military budget for that? obviously they dont know what to do with the military force anyway.

  • @monkeyology1 It's not your fucking government doing it you ignorant monkey.

  • Regarding the Earth Destruction bit... why do the physicists themselves fuel the flames by uttering falsehoods about LHC creating particles which haven't existed since the Big Bang? Those very particles are getting created, en masse, through collisions in out upper atmosphere this very minute. The difference is that we don't have sophisticated detectors up there to study them. If people understood that, then we wouldn't have to deal with this nonsense about black holes eating the World.

  • @ bloodeyez2

    There's so much bullshit in your comment that it's ludicrous. You ARE a moron and I'm no scientist.

  • @bloodeyez2 : You've got a little foam running out the corner of your mouth there, btw.

    We have a pretty good idea just what questions LHC is likely to answer. Depending upon the answers, we have some idea what new questions might be raised. Beyond that... and the really interesting bit... is that there will no doubt be questions raised which we didn't expect. The most exciting phrase in science is not "Eureka!" but "Hmmm... That's odd...".

    Start using your brain. And stop blathering.

  • Well, now it has broken down for another year, what a bloody waste of money! Over $6 billion spent on something with close to zero value for human kind, just so some intellectual elitist jerks can come up with more guesses about how the universe came to be - in order to increase their false sense of importance in society.

    All that money should have been spent on fighting hunger, poverty, diseases, etc which are more important to humanity's survival.

  • In as much as I support science, I detest wasteful science. When you take out $6 billion of public money for a research, you better come up with something objective and meaningful. This machine has been breaking down ever since its inception, so much so that I bet by the time this latest 1 yr shutdown is over, another part would've broken down or deteriorated.

    I'm pretty sure there'll be falsification of results as pressure mounts to justify all that money spent on something that doesn't work.

  • @bloodeyez2 : Troll. History clearly demonstrates that new particle accelerators typically have a teething period and then settle down. The Tevatron has been stable for years and years. Take your ignorance elsewhere, please.

  • Moron, a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the particle smasher had broken within hours of it's launch last week, after that a mishap days ago resulted in "a large helium leak" into the collider's tunnel. What part of the "scheduled maintenance" does all that fit in?! or are you just another retard with a computer?

    Let me guess, when something goes wrong you "scientific" types tell people its part of the plan because they are all too stupid to understand anyway? right?! YOU IMBECILE!

  • @bloodeyez2 the collider launched like 5 years ago, dumbass.

  • @bloodeyez2 you're a moron.

    honesty, go look in the mirror and see a moron looking back at you.

    people like you don't deserve an opinion because you lack the faculty to formulate one.

  • @TheFifthApes

    Yes a negative mass particle is a difficult thing to wrap your head around, but if you think about it the concept makes sense. A proton that has mass cannot simply appear from nothing, so to balance it out a negative mass particle must also be created to act as a sort of counter weight.

    This has nothing to do with the charge of the particle since a negatively charged particle doesn't change the mass of an object.

  • @falconfira No kidding. You can't have less than 0 mass, if you could the object would travel faster than light which just won't do. The documentary is oversimplifying the concept to the point that it's just wrong. If a particle had negative mass it would repell it's partner and they wouldn't ever meet.

    It's not balanced by a negative mass particle but a negative CHARGE particle. Right, charge doesn't change it's mass. Electrons and positrons have the same mass and opposite charge.

  • @falconfira Look, go to Wiki and type in the name of any antiparticle you want, none will show a negative mass.

    They usually have a negative charge, but in the case of an antineutrino it has an opposite baryon number rather than charge since a neutron has 0 charge anyway. (Remember it's the qwarks that are opposite since they're the fundimental particles inside protons and neutrons)

  • @TheFifthApes Sorry, antineutron, not antineutrono*

  • 16 billion dollars 2 years up and running and ...nothing absolutly nothing

  • I'm excited about the LHC. I'm anxious to hear the results. :3

  • Demolition derby loops were the same shape. And when you collided two chevys together you never got a volkswagon ...... you got two broken chevys.

  • Can somebody please answer- what is the effect of powerful external magnetic and electric fields on the Hawking radiation from a micro-BH that is trapped within those fields?

  • @motherofallemails wait are you afraid of the magnetic forces and electric fields? cause your talking about an EMP field which isn't dangerous to humans at all. the only way this device could mess you up is if you broke into the facilty and put yourself into the machine where the partials collided WHEN they were doing the exparement. short of that this thing can't really hurt anyone.

  • "nerdy experiment"

    But let's let people vote based on their IQ, so as to not let idiots regulate global politics.

  • There should be some world vote to see if we let people play tennis as well, since the energies involved in the LHC experiment are roughly equivalent to a tennis ball traveling at 60 miles per hour.

    God I wish we could just stop idiots from breeding.

  • I feel its a bit like Stone Age man hitting two flints together to create sparks!

  • Basically... it is. It's just done with much better sensing equipment than our biological eyes, and stronger accelerators than our hands.

  • @nickharvey7 honestly the forces this thing produces aren't going to be much bigger. we should just outlaw fire and all technology if we shut this thing down. quickly Sheeple smash your computer in front of you before it destroys the the world from a short circuit XD.

  • but wouldn't that money be better spent buying me a really nice stereo? woiuldn't it?

  • I love people's "chicken little" attitude.

  • Well if it is dangerous and something happens i bet they're the first to run and hide wide we all sit unknowing. :D

  • People don't know the actual process. They just meddle with it from lamer's grounds.

  • WE will be fine until some nut job Nukes the world to bring back Jesus

  • no the LHC is not dangerous! for that matter, people shouldn't even be scared of black holes because it is possible that these microscopic (and macroscopic) black holes are responsible for the creation of parallel universes.

  • Why have my views/comments been removed? People beware, only approval agreeing views about the LHC are being shown.

  • "Is it really wise for us to take this risk?What if the LHC creates a black hole or duplicates the Big Bang?"

    Sure. And what if the LHC suddenly turns the world inside-out? What if it opens the doorway between our world and the world of the leprechauns? What if it causes dragons and unicorns to exist? What if it brings back Disco?

    What if? What if? What if?

    Scare tactics.

  • "What if it causes dragons and unicorns to exist?"

    That's not a scare tactic. I'd probably donate money to get this going!

  • Ah, but what if it brings back Disco instead? Are you willing to risk that?

  • i can't believe there are smart, educated people who can build things like this and then there are the dumb ignorant pieces of shit. I just wish people valued education more instead of treating it like a prison and acting like homework and good grades are for fags.

  • @stonecoldatheist93 Totally agree with you grades suck and do not represent how smart someone is. School is for learning but they make it to be prison, its really retarded.

  • This kinda feels like propaganda for creationists..........

  • Higgs particle?

    Meaning the Higgs-Boson?

  • yes. just saying HB might confuse those who have no idea what it is.

    ;d

  • @hash1212 Yes, I believe so.

  • Some people say 'particle', some say 'boson', they're talking about the same (predicted-to-exist) thing.

  • It is interesting for sure, but i don't think this puny little experiment of humans will be even close to the powers of the universe, no worries ;-)

  • yes ,, i can here them k-now o look at that one wow there, a squiggle one , o gsh and a curly one,, yeah right ,we will be fine , O ,and the still unanswered question where did they go ,?

  • are black holes the colds place in the universe

  • Actually they are very hot inside.

  • i'm going with cold , , one of us is right ,guess again ,,

  • Huge superdense environment that captures all energy and mass that comes into it?

    It's super hot in there, trust me, it makes no sense for it to be cold.

  • why dose it make no sense there similar to a magna star with a cronia that acts like Einstein-Rouen Bridge the core striped and expels matter at the poles where it forms large clouds in the outer galactic sphere re assembling into mine galaxy which are then assimilated into the main galactic body

  • Simple. Energy, when compressed, becomes hotter.

    Heat is the presense of vast amounts of energy (in simple terms).

    For it to be cold then there must be an absence of energy.

    It makes no sense for a blackhole to be cold.

  • @AnonEyeMouse Actually the machine operates at -273 degrees celcius and the tube is a vacuum. They need to cool the wiring to this temperature because it becomes superconductive meaning the wires have zero electrical resistance.

  • I'm not talking about the LHC, I'm talking about the insides of a black hole.

  • Is that CAS scientist really thinking it might produce another Big Bang? Hilarious. The Big Bang came AFTER the basic mass and energy of the universe were already there, condensed into an irreproducible state. So, to make that happen again, the LHC would have to create not only an expansion event, but also an incomprehensible amount of mass and energy.

    Well, he's smirking, so he's probably just taking the piss.

  • Science is so exciting.

  • Speculation only: maybe one day we will be able to construct a machine that will cause another Big Bang, obliterating everything the one that created us caused. In fact, maybe that's the way it happens every time. And maybe by the time we have that power, we will have beaten the game anyway (learned all there is to know), and we will be ready for a new universe in any case. Fun to think about. Only speculation though.

  • sounds like something Douglas Adams once said

  • if you are worried about it producing black holes then read up on Hawking Radiation. That will belay all your fears.... assuming you can grasp the concept of a negative mass particle.

  • @falconfira I'me not sure Hawking Radiation deals with negative mass particles. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought it was just matter and antimatter, being positive and negative CHARGES, but they both have equal mass.

  • @TheFifthApes

    It is not possible for me to explain it is 500 characters so I will simply give you a video link and a time index to start at.

    watch?v=3gox8PpNOPY 2:56

    That will very clearly explain what happens

  • @falconfira Yeah I've seen that documentary but I think they have the language a bit wrong.

    I have a pretty good qualitative understanding of Hawking Radiation and virtual particles as a consequence of quantum electrodynamics.

    Virtual particles come in pairs as a particle and antiparticle, like an electron and a positron. As we already know, when a particle and antiparticle meet, they convery their mass to energy.

    Cont'd

  • Cont'd

    At the event horizon of a black hole where these particles are bring created, a (say) positron can fall in, find an electron within the black hole, and annhilate with it, leaving the electron outside the event horizon which is now a real particle which floats off and is observed as 'radiation'.

    Here's the thing; antiparticles don't have negative mass, they have negative charge, as does all antimatter. I don't think "negative mass" can exist. It's like negative temperature in K.

  • @falconfira Sorry, slight correction: Antimatter doesn't have "Negative charge" but rather OPPOSITE charge. So the antielectron (positron) has a positive charge (Since an electron has a negative charge) where an antiproton would have a negative charge.

  • I hope the fire date for this thing isn't December 21 2012 or we are doomed . Just kidding . Great videos 5*****

  • spettacular video.....

  • don't have time to read through all the comments or much less dig to find support for my position, but / so, My question and or concern, if as I recall there is a fundamental calculation that says every proton neutron or something actually contains the entire mass of the known universe - mathematically ...wouldn't that indicate if it were liberated it would result in a ( nother) big bang? Re; causality loop. re: Star Trek TNG... Data?

  • no.

    i think you're confused.

    also, mass irrelevant in this... if would be about energies.

    ;d

  • Sorry, it's not like I get infinity and eternity confused but when quantum has sex with strings I lose track of multi-verses. I mean, really, interbreeding timelines? There should be one of those Newton law's or something...

  • lol

    i have no idea what you're talking about.... but it was fun to read. :D

    ;d

  • amazing

  • you can thank the ignorance and opposition of religious organizations to furthering science by crying "the sky is falling!" every time there is an advance.

    The problem I see...their delusional voice gets louder every year.

  • If I am not mistaken if the LHC did create a blackhole it would take the age of the universe^10 to be able to consume even a human being...

  • @netsoj That's cool. Why do you think that, or do you know a place on the net where I can find that out?

  • @nemo3590

    CERN's website.

  • Thanks.

  • Any concern of the public about generating black holes on earth just demonstrates the extreme ignorance of the general public.

  • Don't blame the public, blame the education system. The particle they are talking about here is the higs boson, it is credited with giving other particles mass, but so far it has not been seen outside of theory.

  • "Don't blame the public, blame the education system."

    Popular coverage also does have some to do with the problem.

    The Higgs boson you referenced is commonly referred to as the "God particle", which while it may be apt gets the more conspiratorial people in our society ranting and raving about scientists trying to play God...

  • "Don't blame the public, blame the education system"

    sorry, but that's an utter crock of shit.

    the education system spoon feeds you knowledge(not the best either) it's up to your dumbass(not specifically you ;)) to find/figure shit out.

    if people are ignorant, it's their own damn fault.

    i hate when people blame the school system when they won't even read if it's not for an assignment.

    fools.

    ;d

  • wohooo can't wait!

  • @Zubinen

    I don't mind your argument on why young scientist may not be published. But (!) then you say it's the same/or close to the same with string theory.

    So I did a google search for "string theorists" and found Alexander Belavin. He's born in the 1940's. Not young. And have already been published on other subjects besides string theory. Why not on string theory? Because it is very (!) hard to prove anything.

    I'm sure that if they do prove it, most sceptic scientist will be happy aswell.

  • When will results be finally published?

  • Cosmic Rays pass through the Earth. The LHC may 'produce' 'em in situ. That's a bit different.

    Scientists enjoy being held in high regard but, they can have an element of arrogance that tries to dismiss what they brand 'Doomsday scare mongerers'. Well, the LHC is an experiment and as such it is delving into the unknown. They may theorise all they like but, they'll never guarantee 100% Just ask 'em.

    To smash particles also runs the risk of producing new disfigured matter. Like a bitten Apple.

  • @Topdoginuk No, they can in fact guarantee 100%. Cosmic rays have been hitting the earth in all its history. Some of these do have energies much higher than 100EeV, whereas the LHC operates in the lower TeV scale. These rays are million times more energetic! Thus, if there would be any possibility of some exotic matter, that could destroy the earth, it would have happened a long time ago.

  • @SeltsamerAttraktor  Not a single Physicist would be in their right mind to give a 100% guarantee, unless they were so insular & egoistic as fear their Nobel Prize slipping away!

    Cosmic Rays pass through. They are not in situ. Mini Black Holes (MBH) are unlikely but, never 100% so.

    'Exotic', 'damaged' matter can never be ruled out as a consequence of the LHC. Whether they pose a threat would remain to be seen.

    I'm as keen as anyone else to see what transpires from LHC. Higgs? Unknowns perhaps?

  • @Topdoginuk Neutrinos pass through, and maybe other Stuff that doesn't interact by EM (dark matter). But all normal matter / gamma rays loose their energy, when they go through the atmosphere, by creating a huge shower of particles. If something harmful could be produced, there would have been cascades that gave birth to some of those particles with such a low velocity, that they'd be trapped in earth's gravity well. Period.

  • Even if a mini-black hole were created it would not pose a danger due to it's tiny mass. A blackhole can only have the mass equivalent to the matter and energy that went into making it or that it has captured. Seeing as the matter/energy of the LHC experiements are orders of magnitude less than the mass of the Earth, an mini-blackholes would last the briefest of moments before being torn open by the Earth's gravitational field.

    It's like being worried about being trampled under foot by an ant.

  • you can torn open a black hole? I haven't know that this is possible....is there any side where I could get more information about that?

  • Seeing as how your grammar is worse than an 8 year old's, I'm not surprised you didn't know that. :D

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  • why cant they run at 100% light speed or more, 99.9% might not produce the results they need.

  • because its sort of impossibe :P

  • @xtiger357

    matter with mass cant go at the speed of light. it will just absorb the energy and grow instead of getting to 100%

  • @xtiger357 Relativity - read it up.

  • If the particles have mass then it is impossible for them to accelerate the particles to the speed of light. They would have to start changing the laws of physics if they wanted to run the collider at the speed of light.

  • It's a shame that they can only run it at half power, but hopefully that should be enough for some really interesting science.

  • @CousinoMacul Why's that? Would it produce lethal sustances or can't the detectors handle that? Sounds interesting

  • The superconducting magnets aren't up to the task. The engineers at CERN discovered this after one of their magnets melted down and forced the LHC offline for several months last year. The good news is that after the scheduled upgrades later this decade, the magnets should be able do deal with full power experiments. :-)

  • DragonCuber: From my understanding, they need the data, and then shut down in 2012 for repairs to bring it finally to full power.