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originally posted by: BASEDSATAN
"Hey let's build a bigger particle accelerator to find tinier particles".. Science in this manner is one-dimensional.
You will never find the smallest particle nor will you ever find the largest.
Their time would be much better spent designing ways to benefit from the discovery of it and not whether or not it's discovery disproves some silly creationist theory..
in early 2015, the LHC will have almost twice as much collision power, which will hopefully allow it to further investigate the Higgs boson, and probe the theory of supersymmetry.
originally posted by: Nyiah
My space nut kiddo thinks the universe is like a recipe for a food. We know it's here, we're looking at it, touching things in it. We just can't tell what all the ingredients are yet, and full cooking instructions. That's pretty simplistic, and likely not far off, and from a 5 year old.
Looking at it from my kid's POV, it makes sense. We are like a person with next to no cooking skills wandering through a kitchen with very limited understanding of how the dishes are made. But they're right there, we can observe them. That's the universe for us, a delectably complex feast on a plate. Wouldn't it be nice to know what's in it, eh? Got to make the tools for that, test different things, we might be able to come up with a written approximate or even exact formula for that meal eventually.
But to come in & say "Emeril made it, Emeril is the answer!" is buffoonery. Emeril could be long dead & gone and will be of no use at that point. Explore, learn, and understand for ourselves, not someone not even present. (take that crap to the religion forum anyway, that's what it's there for)
originally posted by: AutumnWitch657
Ever stop to consider that it's complicated physical principals like this that account for simple minded people's belief in god? If I could take a lighter back in time 200 years people would think I was godlike.
Anything less people know the physical principals of gas and sparks to make fire.
Go back 200 years and tell people you can talk to someone even just one mile away and they will think you're insane. Tell them you can go completely around the planet in about 16 hours and they will lock you up.
The more we advance in our understanding the less significant the concept of a supreme being becomes. e reply to: Chrisfishenstein
originally posted by: Ubei2
There are plenty of theories out there regarding the make up of the universe, but what baffles me is the presumption that there is a fundamental, all-explaining particle upon which existence and matter would make sense.
Who's to say that there are not infinitesimaly smaller and smaller "god particles," a neverending array of such that goes smaller and bigger than our physical brain may perceive and that our science may ever even begin to postulate.
originally posted by: SubTruth
a reply to: ionwind
So many scientist are flat out stupid and are not willing to look outside the box. They take what they read in a book as fact without questioning it.
their results are a major advance in our understanding of cosmology and a confirmation of the inflation theory, but they have proven controversial and are not yet fully accepted by cosmologists.
Perhaps the BICEP2 results contain an error. If not, there must be some other – as yet unknown – process which prevented the universe from collapsing. "If BICEP2 is shown to be correct, it tells us that there has to be interesting new particle physics beyond the standard model" Hogan said.
originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: ionwind
We know they don’t know, and likely they never will know because understanding the mechanics of something never tells you the WHY, the intention…that is reserved for the mystic to ultimately tell you no one can understand the intention of God but God.
originally posted by: Willtell
a reply to: ionwind
We know they don’t know, and likely they never will know because understanding the mechanics of something never tells you the WHY, the intention…that is reserved for the mystic to ultimately tell you no one can understand the intention of God but God.
originally posted by: Darkblade71
Perhaps the Universe did collapse and we are just residual energy caught like ghosts in time.
You know, anything is possible.
But then I believe in a holographic universe...
*sip*