shortlived Posted March 14, 2013 Report Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/physicists-say-they-have-found-a-higgs-boson/article4508342.ece wow, just wow. see the political implications here http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/higgs-boson-particle-could-spell-doom-for-universe/article4451852.ece NEW FORUM?? interstellar politics? .. rest of the universe? In other words, "we may have broke it" I dunno breaking a planet is bad enough, now we may have broke the universe, "someone" / "something" could get pissed at that.. you know a big asteroid sent to cause an explosion or something.. (yeah I know try aiming at that distance) And before you go into it, initially they thought global warming would take a long time to effect us too.. Edited March 14, 2013 by shortlived Quote My posts are sometimes edited to create spelling errors if you see one kindly notify me. These edits do not show up as edits as my own edits do, so it is either site moderation, or third party moderation. This includes changing words completely. If a word looks out of place in a message kindly contact me so I can correct it. These changes are not exclusive to this website, and is either a form of net stalking by a malicious hacker, or perhaps government, it has been ongoing for years now.
kimmy Posted March 14, 2013 Report Posted March 14, 2013 Ha ha, no. Just no. The universe *will* end. There's two ideas how that happens. One way is that the universe just continues expanding forever and ever and entropy claims everything. The other is that at some point the universe stops expanding and is pulled back toward inward by its own gravity... everything ultimately ends up crushed into a singularity. Which is more likely? That depends how much mass there is in the universe. At the time Stephen Hawking wrote "A Brief History of Time", the prevailing view was that entropy was the ultimate fate of the universe, because they didn't believe there was enough mass to draw everything back together. Hawking said the question wasn't settled because they keep discovering more mass. The discovery of the Higgs Boson gives scientists another clue in figuring out whether the universe will die from entropy or from being crushed into a singularity. Scientists here on our little blue marble did not destroy the universe by creating a new particle. They did not create anything new at all. They observed something that already existed but had never been observed before. -k Quote (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Friendly forum facilitator! ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
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