Large Hadron Collider

[yak.h'cir]

They'll still say 'A greater being' created whatever happened at the start...regardless...

No because the big bang model of the Universe & evolution doesn't fit in with a fundamentalist viewpoint, regardless of who or what set the ball rolling.

No one can say 'God' does not exist, because no one can prove he/it/her/flibalop does exist...Or doesn't exist for that matter...

That's a pretty lame viewpoint in general. Absence of evidence to the contrary does not prove a positive, it doesn't give evidence for the positive. You're right in that no one can say with 100% accuracy that god does not exist, but to say this means god might exist is no more valid then me saying that my garden is inhabited by a society of little green elvis monsters with wings who like reading poetry and are visible to only me.

 

[platypus]

Doesn't the results of this test have profound, if not terminal, implications for many world religions (particularly thinking of fundamental Christians, creationism etc)?

No. You can't reason with these types of people.

 

[willhub]

So when they start?


I'LL SURVIVE!

 

[nikebee]

http://www.cafepress.com/hadroncollider

Awesome, many thanks

Time to look like a nerd in work


even more than normal

 

[Delvis]

No because the big bang model of the Universe & evolution doesn't fit in with a fundamentalist viewpoint, regardless of who or what set the ball rolling.



That's a pretty lame viewpoint in general. Absence of evidence to the contrary does not prove a positive, it doesn't give evidence for the positive. You're right in that no one can say with 100% accuracy that god does not exist, but to say this means god might exist is no more valid then me saying that my garden is inhabited by a society of little green elvis monsters with wings who like reading poetry and are visible to only me.

I didn't say this would prove God exists...All I'm saying is, people who follow God (Whatever religeon) Will always have God in there eyes...No Science is going to say otherwise.

If (I'm just saying here) these tests show us how thing's 'Came to be' they would still believe everything that they believe in.

Hey, you could have a little green elvis for all I know, and you could be tripping on Mushrooms or something...Who am I to know?

 

[dustiestrat]

imagine if you went back in time and found the universe and big bang was actually created in an even bigger hadron collider.

 

[yak.h'cir]

I didn't say this would prove God exists...All I'm saying is, people who follow God (Whatever religeon) Will always have God in there eyes...No Science is going to say otherwise.

Ahh, I thought you meant otherwise seeing as I too said that the science wouldn't affect the religious.

 

[Delvis]

imagine if you went back in time and found the universe and big bang was actually created in an even bigger hadron collider.

Now that...would be rather amusing.

 

[Fuzz]

Hot bird on BBC news

 

[bledd]

looking at the thread title quickly suggests two excited men in a public toilet having an unfortunate accident where they 'touch' by accident

 

[yak.h'cir]

imagine if you went back in time and found the universe and big bang was actually created in an even bigger hadron collider.

It might not have to be very large, there are some theories about that the sum energy of the universe is zero so in some theories at least the universe can be created by nothing.

Which is handy if you want to make a Universe since according to the CERN website the energy released in the collisions that will eventually be happening in the LHC is equivalent to two mosquitoes colliding!

 

[Delvis]

Ahh, I thought you meant otherwise seeing as I too said that the science wouldn't affect the religious.

No worries

Least we're on the same wave length now

 

[Mobius 1]

I bet they're so bored of people making jokes like that at the LHC, there must have been more then a few! Especially if anyone of them is called Gordon

 

[SourChipmunk]

I didn't say this would prove God exists...All I'm saying is, people who follow God (Whatever religeon) Will always have God in there eyes...No Science is going to say otherwise.

I told my wife about this device and what they are trying to prove with it. I explained as best as I could that they are trying to find the "glue" that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds us all together, comparing it to "the Force" in Star Wars because she is a fan. I asked something about why atoms bond together like they do, and she replied without batting an eye, "Because that's the way God intended it."

 

[Delvis]

I told my wife about this device and what they are trying to prove with it. I explained as best as I could that they are trying to find the "glue" that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds us all together, comparing it to "the Force" in Star Wars because she is a fan. I asked something about why atoms bond together like they do, and she replied without batting an eye, "Because that's the way God intended it."

Answer to everything

Hence why Scientists came along to prove thing's I guess...Cause they didn't want to follow what they where told to believe.

 

[Fuzz]

I dont believe there was a big bang cos it dont make sense that something went bang and then there was fish and animals and stuff.

I LITERALLY fell off my sofa laughing, crying and coughing my lungs up at that...
Just weezing back to normality as I type this...

RETARD!!

 

[yak.h'cir]

"Because that's the way God intended it."

Haha! An old gf of mine used to say similar but that was just to wind me up

 

[Subby]

From what i'm reading nothing has actually been "collided" yet has it?

 

[nikebee]

From what i'm reading nothing has actually been "collided" yet has it?

Not yet, media hype for nothing tbh.

Today has just been tests, this morning when it was "turned on" they shot the particles around one way and did a few laps. Then at midday they did the opposite directions.

Testing the machine and magnets today basically.

They've fired ping-pong balls through it as well which made me laugh

Apparently one got stuck and they had to fire another one to knock it free

 

[yak.h'cir]

They've fired ping-pong balls through it as well which made me laugh

Apparently one got stuck and they had to fire another one to knock it free

Seriously? That's awesome, I bet there were a few crossed fingers when they were firing the second in the hope of freeing the first Imagine if it was really stuck and they had to dismantle the machine to get it out!