(December 11, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Alex K Wrote: I'm a particle physicist, so if you have a linky ill take a look at it. But spontaneously two things come to mind:
No scientific instrument of that type would destroy creationism any more than the existing ones already do, or any other fundamental science for that matter. That's just not how creationists work - they already have to ignore so much evidence to keep the game up, any new experiment will just add a bit more to the list.
"Table top" colliders may soon reach very large energies with these fancy new plasma based acceleration techniques, but I think their luminosity, i.e. rate of collisions , seems to be terribly low in the forseeable future, such that they will have a hard time competing with conventional designs.
YES! I am such a science geek (just not smart enough to fully comprehend) I know that they found the "god particle" at CERN, but the weight at the time left uncertainty (as I understand it) as to weather there is a possibility of other particles.
I was hoping this new collider would be able to smash things up enough to see more particles, thus TOTALLY disproving creationism. I know CERN is upgrading and should be able to do bigger and better collisions with better analysis. When I saw this report I just got excited.
Sounds like I need to wait though.
Anytime you want to talk about particle stuff, Alex, you have a fan here! (yes, i am sucking up)
