Comments on: Where Were You the Day of the 2nd Big Bang? http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/education/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bruce http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/education/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/comment-page-1/#comment-4512 Bruce Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:29:53 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/09/04/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/#comment-4512 Arrgh.........I don't think the black hole(s) scenario would necessarily be so quick and painless. One thing for certain, if the humans can try a thing, they will try a thing. Hence the seeds of self-destruction are well planted in human nature . Let's just hope that the above experiment will luckily produce something positive, like unlimited energy or leak-proof roofing tar. Arrgh………I don’t think the black hole(s) scenario would necessarily be so quick and painless. One thing for certain, if the humans can try a thing, they will try a thing. Hence the seeds of self-destruction are well planted in human nature . Let’s just hope that the above experiment will luckily produce something positive, like unlimited energy or leak-proof roofing tar.

]]> By: dog-geek http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/education/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/comment-page-1/#comment-4507 dog-geek Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:40:17 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/09/04/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/#comment-4507 Hmmm... maybe it is just me, but I find the idea of the tiny black holes gobbling up the house that Jack built to be oddly comforting. We'd never see the end coming - we'd just go out in the same state of ignorant bliss that we came in. None of the things that seem so important or worrisome or scary to us will matter at all. None of us will leave anyone behind to mourn our loss, or curse our names, or try to decipher our stinking lab notebooks that we didn't quite keep up to standard... Go, CERN! Hmmm… maybe it is just me, but I find the idea of the tiny black holes gobbling up the house that Jack built to be oddly comforting. We’d never see the end coming – we’d just go out in the same state of ignorant bliss that we came in. None of the things that seem so important or worrisome or scary to us will matter at all. None of us will leave anyone behind to mourn our loss, or curse our names, or try to decipher our stinking lab notebooks that we didn’t quite keep up to standard… Go, CERN!

]]> By: fletch http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/education/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/comment-page-1/#comment-4504 fletch Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:51:20 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/09/04/where-were-you-on-the-day-of-the-second-big-bang/#comment-4504 "...until it reaches .99991% the speed of light." You would think they would go for .99999% being that close already. I guess it's not physically possible to actually reach the speed of light. These protons will not experience time as we know it, so if it starts on September 10, when will it reach max speed from the proton's point of view? A rhetorical question. It's all relative you know. September 10 or 11 is not a good day to experiment with ending life on the planet. You would think they would pick a more appropriate day to start this. “…until it reaches .99991% the speed of light.”

You would think they would go for .99999% being that close already. I guess it’s not physically possible to actually reach the speed of light. These protons will not experience time as we know it, so if it starts on September 10, when will it reach max speed from the proton’s point of view? A rhetorical question. It’s all relative you know. September 10 or 11 is not a good day to experiment with ending life on the planet. You would think they would pick a more appropriate day to start this.

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