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TED | Talks | Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider (video)

A really cool talk about the new super collider and what they hope to learn from the experiments. He actually puts a very inspirational spin on it at the end too which is really compelling.

Discuss

[Oreo]

Well, that Brian guy has the best of both worlds :rolleyes: remarkabley intelligent, without a geeky look. I bet the ladies run towards him..

But yes, should be interesting when they switch it on.

[BennyV04988]

Originally Posted by Oreo

Well, that Brian guy has the best of both worlds :rolleyes: remarkabley intelligent, without a geeky look. I bet the ladies run towards him..

But yes, should be interesting when they switch it on.

I really like how excited he is about it. It makes me excited! lol.

I think people sometimes forget how incredible science can be and how satisfying it is to know the truth about and understand something.

EDIT: On the ladies comment, if I ever meet an attractive girl who can not only understand things like cosmology, but actually is excited and eager to discuss them, game over!

[Oreo]

Good point there

All i wanted to know, is were did the Big Bang come from ? something must of made the stuff that enabled the big bang..

[BennyV04988]

Originally Posted by Oreo

Good point there

All i wanted to know, is were did the Big Bang come from ? something must of made the stuff that enabled the big bang..

It may be just one example in an infinite cycle of explosions and collapses, each with new physical laws.

[Oreo]

But at some point along the line something must of came from somewere, but that also must of came from somewere..which must of game from somewere... and so on and so forth.

No matter how hard i think about it, i can never fathom what there was before everything - or even how everything started (not the universe, whatever was before the universe etc etc)

[BennyV04988]

Originally Posted by Oreo

But at some point along the line something must of came from somewere, but that also must of came from somewere..which must of game from somewere... and so on and so forth.

No matter how hard i think about it, i can never fathom what there was before everything - or even how everything started (not the universe, whatever was before the universe etc etc)

haha. Pretty wild eh? The most simple existence of matter creates an inescapable paradox because time demands finality.

I love to think of such things though. Age old paradoxes. Like why is there so much time, and so much space, and such finely tuned sub-atomic laws? None of it makes sense... Where the **** did it all come from and why?

Religion tries to make sense of it, but if any of that were true there would only be earth, a little snow globe for God, not a universe unfathomably large with 70 sextillion stars!

The emptiness of reason and purpose is depressing at times, but I'd much rather embrace this reality we live in than to stick my head in the sand.

[Ste]

What is more curious is why humans for the most part believe or hope that there must be a why, a reason, a start and an end, however, just because we can ask does not mean there will be an answer.. There may not be a reason why, at least one we can understand.

Do want Higgs Boson and Graviton.. Thats all I have to say..

[BennyV04988]

Originally Posted by Ste

What is more curious is why humans for the most part believe or hope that there must be a why, a reason, a start and an end, however, just because we can ask does not mean there will be an answer.. There may not be a reason why, at least one we can understand.

Do want Higgs Boson and Graviton.. Thats all I have to say..

Agreed. And with the fact that we are sooooo insignificant in the scheme of time and space, an answer that has anything to do with us, let alone a single person, is just absolutely outrageous to me.

Here's one of my biggest gripes at the moment though...

http://news-service.stanford.edu/new..._timespace.jpg

"mass warps space" illustration - they always depict the celestial bodies as if they were on a sheet that bends under mass. The problem I have with this is that it's only ever shown in one plane, and the objects always "weigh down" on this sheet, as if there they are being pulled by another gravity force perpendicular to this sheet-plane. It's like using the word in the definition!

[Oreo]

Will read when i get home from school : )

God, i hate this place. It's just epic crapness.