We haven't yet gone throughout the entirety of our solar system, but I've just read that we essentially have created a 17-mile-long tubular track of "one of the emptiest and coldest regions of space in the solar system" 300 feet below Geneva with magnets. I find it hard to believe that such a description can apply to it because much is still unknown about the solar system, but I'm not surprised that the scientists of our day have taken the steps to create the Large Hadron Collider for the hopes of new discoveries.
With Higgs' "molasses" field unproven yet incorporated into the standard model - the behavior of nature's basic constituents with unprecedented accuracy as stated in the article - I'm curious what would it mean if the Large Hadron Collider experiments showed no such field. Would the whole standard model and everything that had followed it need to be reexamined? And to what extent?
Supersymmetric particle theory as explained in the article sounds like a reasonable concept that if proven would make a lot of sense in the idea of equal and opposite pairs. Plus, with the speculation surrounding dark matter, this discovery could possibly lead to more understanding about dark matter.
I think it would be fascinating to discover that there are extra dimensions, but I don't understand to what extent scientists would explore them or to what purpose. I mean sure it is interesting, but what would they do with the find?
In the creation of mirco black holes, the article states that they dissipate quickly, but isn't there the possibility that in creating so many that a larger black hole could form and then what would that do? Maybe not suck in the whole earth but could earthquakes or tremors form from this and cause damage? Also, cosmic rays from space coming down on the earth are described as stronger than anything that could be created in the Large Hadron Collider and no harm has come from the cosmic rays; but these are two distinctly different settings - one is natural from space and the other is a man-made reconstruction 300 feet below the earth's surface and variables may have been overlooked.
My last comment is about all these particles/theories that are hoped to be created. Has there been any thought about how these particles will interact with each other if multiple are produced? Like sending a micro black hole into an extra dimension or something?
With Higgs' "molasses" field unproven yet incorporated into the standard model - the behavior of nature's basic constituents with unprecedented accuracy as stated in the article - I'm curious what would it mean if the Large Hadron Collider experiments showed no such field. Would the whole standard model and everything that had followed it need to be reexamined? And to what extent?
Supersymmetric particle theory as explained in the article sounds like a reasonable concept that if proven would make a lot of sense in the idea of equal and opposite pairs. Plus, with the speculation surrounding dark matter, this discovery could possibly lead to more understanding about dark matter.
I think it would be fascinating to discover that there are extra dimensions, but I don't understand to what extent scientists would explore them or to what purpose. I mean sure it is interesting, but what would they do with the find?
In the creation of mirco black holes, the article states that they dissipate quickly, but isn't there the possibility that in creating so many that a larger black hole could form and then what would that do? Maybe not suck in the whole earth but could earthquakes or tremors form from this and cause damage? Also, cosmic rays from space coming down on the earth are described as stronger than anything that could be created in the Large Hadron Collider and no harm has come from the cosmic rays; but these are two distinctly different settings - one is natural from space and the other is a man-made reconstruction 300 feet below the earth's surface and variables may have been overlooked.
My last comment is about all these particles/theories that are hoped to be created. Has there been any thought about how these particles will interact with each other if multiple are produced? Like sending a micro black hole into an extra dimension or something?
