Math is hard!

Always knew they were up to no good out at Fermi... I'm pretty much equidistant from Fermi and Argonne. I fear the day some genius at Fermi decides to aim his accelerated particles at the ones they're working on at Argonne.
 
The machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aims to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, when the universe is thought to have exploded into existence about 14 billion years ago. However, the November start-up may now have to be delayed until next spring.
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They want to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, which according to theory is a HUGE explosion that brought EVERYTHING into existance.

Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to recreate this? Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to leave something like this in the hands of folks who can't get their math straight?


Respectfully,

Mack
 
Mack said:
They want to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, which according to theory is a HUGE explosion that brought EVERYTHING into existance.

Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to recreate this? Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to leave something like this in the hands of folks who can't get their math straight?


Respectfully,

Mack
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I was thinking the same... just a bad idea, waiting to go wrong...
 
Mack said:
They want to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, which according to theory is a HUGE explosion that brought EVERYTHING into existance.

Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to recreate this? Is there anyone else who thinks this might be a bad idea to leave something like this in the hands of folks who can't get their math straight?


Respectfully,

Mack
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Okay, wait a sec.They are trying to recreate the conditions on a subatomic scale. Seeing how those particles react will relate to how it happened on the much larger scale. We can not produce anywhere near the energy required to Big Bang out the Earth (or even France), but we can do it to a single Hydrogen atom.

As for the operators, cut them some slack, they did not make the math mistake. The math mistake was made by the people who built the device, not the users of it. I believe.
 
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