This Wednesday scientists will work to recreate the big bang

This isn't front page news? Everyone I know has been taking about this for ages already.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Jessykins <3

We're fucked.

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Originally Posted by Mo0

You mean LiveJournal?

Those jokes were so not funny, I'm pretty sure I heard John Stamos tell them at a celebrity roast.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by deadally

So, Deni...how about the possibly marvelous correlation in particle physics?

Do you care?

What's the matter, Princess? Annoyed because I dissed you for comparing what is possibly the most important experiment in modern history to a guy who played the violin?

And no, I don't care at all about the LHC. I don't care that a 10 billion dollar particle accelerator is looking to map out the forces at work during the big bang. I don't care in the slightest about the Higgs Boson particle, or the role it will play in the future of research in the field. I don't care about the fact it may prove of disprove supersymmetry, and in the process either support or damage the idea of string theory. I don't care about the fact we may find Dark Matter, or at least produce it.

I don't care at all about the field of physics. Not in the slightest.



In future, Princess, assume when I diss you it's because you were making an ass of yourself and I felt the obviousness of why you were getting dissed made it unnecessary to explain it in an actual post, not because you're too deep for the room.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by deadally

And, to answer your question, yes! It's quite annoying to have some random guy be a jerk to you for no reason. We don't think on the same level. I don't think you need to attempt to belittle me and call me out on things you really don't seem to understand.

No, I was a jerk to you after you made a catty comment. What I did initially was diss you for making an eye-rollingly bad namedrop. I'm sorry your skin isn't thick enough to deal with someone on the internet thinking you're acting like a git when you, well, act like a git.

We don't think on the same level. That's adorable. I love people like Yama and yourself. Someone calls you on something, with specific references to what you're talking about, and your defense boils down to: "you just don't get it. I'm so clever you can't comprehend me." See, your problem, Princess, is that you think because someone doesn't speak like D'artagnan, they haven't read the same books you have.

The concerthall is back that way. Feel free to limp home whenever you like.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by deadally

The comment about thinking on different levels is not meant to imply that I think at a higher level than you. It just means that my perspective is a completely different one from yours, so it makes sense to me why you don't see this as an inspiration the way I do.

I doubt we work/learn in the same fields, so we have different manifestations of inspiration, IE different levels of thought. Sorry if I came off as arrogant, since I don't have a right to be to someone I don't even know.

That whole bit where I was saying I didn't care about? That was sarcasm. If I didn't care about it, I wouldn't know about it. Physics is a massive source of inspiration for anyone with an interest in the hard sciences. Being an atheist and not being inspired by science is akin to claiming to be a christian and saying you don't really care about the bible/god.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by deadally

I'm still incredibly curious about my question, though. If you know a lot about string theory/membrane theory/whichever is supposed to explain everything, then maybe you could answer. Does this take care of the issue of probability? Could it eliminate uncertainty in atomic study?

I'm not saying there isn't a direct correlation between art and science, I'm saying coming into a room where you know the majority of people will have no idea who you're talking about and throwing around a name like Paganini without explanation makes you come off like a berke.

Think of it this way: It would be like me wandering into a room full of people obsessed with the show America's Next Top Model and claiming that the model's haircut reminded me of Louise Brooks circa her time in the movies of G.W. Pabst. It doesn't make me wrong, it just makes me look like a dick.

And as for the ToE, my understanding of things like string theory and the ToE are as rudimentary as most people's with an amateur interest in physics. As I understand it, the ToE is just an equation that solves the difference between the two major theories. So it doesn't eliminate probability or uncertainty, but rather just provides proof that both approaches are correct, and that you can explain pretty much anything. Prediction still being inherently difficult.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Sousuke

Actually, I'm more curious about what a quantized 'Theory of Everything' and creation [as the Big Bang, for example] would do to all the religious zealots of the world.

You're talking about a group of people who claim god faked the age of dinosaurs (as seen in carbon dating) to fuck with science.

I think they'll get along just fine with this.

How ya doing, buddy?