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RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 5, 2012 at 3:44 pm
There's also the possibility it was named the God particle ironically, as in it ought to be there if the predictions made for its existence are anything to go by; but buggered if anyone can find it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 7, 2012 at 5:21 pm
I read that this thing could make travelling at light speed a possibility. Enterprise captain's chair, here I come!
You really believe in a man who has helped to save the world twice, with the power to change his physical appearance? An alien who travels though time and space--
in a police box?!? ![[Image: TARDIS.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.smileyvault.com%2Falbums%2Fuserpics%2F11195%2FTARDIS.gif)
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RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 7, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Lightspeed travel would be horrible unless all the relativistic problems can be ironed out. Even then the travel times to all but the nearest stars would be prohibitive. Don't get me wrong, I'm completely on board with opening up the final frontier. What we need is some way to circumvent the light barrier - just imagine a news report showing virtually real-time footage from the first interstellar probe.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 9, 2012 at 4:58 pm
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This is fucking awesome! I'm going on a tour round CERN in a week or 2, I'll hopefully bring a camera!
(July 7, 2012 at 5:50 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Lightspeed travel would be horrible unless all the relativistic problems can be ironed out. Even then the travel times to all but the nearest stars would be prohibitive. Don't get me wrong, I'm completely on board with opening up the final frontier. What we need is some way to circumvent the light barrier - just imagine a news report showing virtually real-time footage from the first interstellar probe.
Stephen Hawking did say wormholes might be a way of travelling large distances quickly, though there are lots of problems with this.
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RE: CERN confirms new particle.
July 9, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Why do both science fans and theists want to turn the obvious into a mystery? All discovering something new means for humans is that we discovered something new. And after we discover something new, we want to look further for something else. There is no mystery in this.
As small as this planet is and as long as the universe has been around, being a blip in all this, I don't think it would be a horrible guess that our species, by the time it goes extinct, will know a fraction of the "full knowledge". There is room for discovering more.
As much as I get a lip twitch for the god of the gaps bullshit, I also get a lip twitch from atheists who jump gaps from protons to transporters.
There is no need for a god for the future, that I am sure of. But even for scientists, all discovering a smaller particle, at this point, would mean, is that we discovered a smaller particle. That does not mean we should stop and go "this is it", but we also should not let even pet speculation of scientists be immune from the scrutiny that has always served humanity well in making progress.
