LHC produces 'mini big bang'

[OutThere]

"This process took place in a safe, controlled environment, generating incredibly hot and dense sub-atomic fireballs with temperatures of over ten trillion degrees, a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11711228

Cool stuff.

 

[flopticalcube]

And no black holes! Higgs boson?

 

[chrmjenkins]

And no black holes! Higgs boson?

Well, the BB would have been the product of an incredibly dense black hole, so you wouldn't expect it as a product I'd imagine.

It seems other sites are closer to the Higgs boson than LHC (at least, the Higgs was not the target of this experiment).

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/Higgs-mass-constraints-20100726.html

 

[gilkisson]

What's the worst that could happen?

"I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."

 

[iJohnHenry]

What's the worst that could happen?

This one is older. But it always spoke to me.

The Husnock were a species destroyed in 2366 by a Douwd who had assumed the Human identity of Kevin Uxbridge. Uxbridge described the Husnock as "a species of hideous intelligence who knew only aggression and destruction."

Their physical appearance is unknown.

In 2366, a Husnock warship attacked and destroyed a Federation colony at Delta Rana IV. Unknown to the Husnock, an energy lifeform known as a Douwd was also living on the planet in the guise of Uxbridge. In a split-second of anguish over the Husnock attackers killing his wife, the normally-pacifist Douwd destroyed every member of the Husnock race with its enormous powers.

The Husnock numbered fifty billion at the time.

 

[Gelfin]

I can produce a mini big bang, but I just call it a bang.

 

[Nermal]

And no black holes! Higgs boson?

Obligatory XCKD (contains language).

 

[gilkisson]

This one is older. But it always spoke to me.

I recall that episode... but I must disagree, it is not older, not IRL nor in respective SciFi time. Alderaan was destroyed:

Long
Long
Ago
In a Galaxy
Far Away​

Sorry, my inner geek was speaking to me..

 

[ravenvii]

Sorry, my inner geek was speaking to me..

Your inner geek has failed you. It is, behold!

Long
Ago
In a Galaxy
Far, Far Away​

Get your facts straight, Trekkie!

D)

 

[Nermal]

Sigh.. not only are you missing "time", but it's not even the "scrolling text":

 

[gilkisson]

My inner geek is notoriously unreliable. He drinks too much. I've tried to talk to him about it, but, you know how he is.

 

[Sydde]

Wait a minute, Far Far Away is where Princess Fiona was from, no?

 

[runplaysleeprun]

Mini Big Bang is a bit of an oxymoron, no? Also, I got in a bit of a fury when I saw the butchered SW opening above, glad someone got it straight.

 

[danielcox]

By 'mini big bang' they mean they've created a quark-gluon plasma which was a state of matter just after the big bang and can be approximated as nearly free quarks and gluons (which are normally bound together) - these are the building blocks of what you and me describe as matter (quarks make protons and neutrons among other things and gluons hold these together).

 

[echeck]

Amazing. I got both smarter and stupider for reading this thread.

So I guess it's a wash...

 

[iJohnHenry]

So, we were the Gods to this infinitely smaller Universe just created/destroyed?

(Refers back to another thread in PRSI.)