[kuklame]

Perhaps we should start breeding genetically engineered Gordon Freemans, you know, just in case. [help]

[first_pr]

Perhaps we should start breeding genetically engineered Gordon Freemans, you know, just in case. [help]

Yea, so long as he has his trusty old crowbar. Gordon Freeman can take on the universe with that crowbar

[RobsShow]

I was at CERN two days ago, the place is incredible, I "only" got to see ATLAS but boy the size of the operation they are running there is overwhelming, I'm gonna try to get into their summer school program next year once I finish my first 3 years as an undergraduate Physics student.

But regarding the black holes thing, well yes the collider will form mini black holes but they will be so small and of such low energies that they will immediately dissipate into radiation, so there is nothing to worry about.
Perhaps we should start breeding genetically engineered Gordon Freemans, you know, just in case. [help] Could we just make sure he kills Dr. Vance as he is coming out of CERN just so Alyx "Nagging me till I die" Vance isn't born?

[lXvtm0ox]

If they can create a universive doesn't mean they'll create life as well.. Therefore the "God" status is a bit over the top.

[first_pr]

If they can create a universive doesn't mean they'll create life as well.. Therefore the "God" status is a bit over the top.

Well that all depends doesn't it. If we "do" create life in a universe "we" created, than we are technically "Gods" to that universe and all life in it.

[RobsShow]

Well that all depends doesn't it. If we "do" create life in a universe "we" created, than we are technically "Gods" to that universe and all life in it.

Only by our definition of god, they may never fabricate the concept of gods in the first place.

[JennaJJxoxoxo]

[rolleyes] There will always be idiots who stand in the way of progress. I personally can't wait for the LHC to come online. Maybe I'm biased since I'm into physics.


Cyclic Model? I've heard of the collapse if there isn't enough energy to overcome gravity, but not the reverse time thing.

Well the original idea seems to have come from Stephen Hawking, but he seems to have back-tracked on it at some point in the intervening years. Heres a good summation of what I was talking about, though.

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/02088/hawking.htm

[RobsShow]

God damn, I did introductory cosmology last year and its all out the window, but what I can remember is that whilst we were looking at the Friedmann equation and model universes we worked on the Einstein-LeMaitre Closed model which suggests that the universe will expand at an ever decreasing rate and eventually contract in a big crunch.

But recent supernovae measurements have determined that the universe is in fact accelerating, the model is clearly wrong.