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chaloobi
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 Posted - 09/10/2008 : 08:30:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Well, it's Wednesday and raining, the collider has been chilled down & fired up, and no little, bitty black holes yet. I am cautiously optimistic, or at least slightly less pessimistic than usual.
As it happens, Stephen Hawking has a $100USD bet on that there will be found no Higg's Boson, or "God particle," as it were. I'd not bet into him on the topic.
But I must remind that the only law in the whole, freakin' universe that actually means anything is Murphy's, so the findings of this magnificent experiment should be surprising at the least.
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astropin
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Posted - 09/10/2008 : 09:17:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
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As it happens, Stephen Hawking has a $100USD bet on that there will be found no Higg's Boson, or "God particle," as it were. I'd not bet into him on the topic.
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I think I would take that bet. Not that I'm very knowledgeable on the topic, but just reading Hawking's statement leads me to believe he thinks it probably will be found but sort of hopes it won't because that outcome would be even more exciting/interesting. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/10/2008 : 09:46:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Originally posted by filthy
Well, it's Wednesday and raining, the collider has been chilled down & fired up, and no little, bitty black holes yet. I am cautiously optimistic, or at least slightly less pessimistic than usual.
As it happens, Stephen Hawking has a $100USD bet on that there will be found no Higg's Boson, or "God particle," as it were. I'd not bet into him on the topic.
But I must remind that the only law in the whole, freakin' universe that actually means anything is Murphy's, so the findings of this magnificent experiment should be surprising at the least.
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If Murphy rules the day, we're all doomed!
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How could you have possibly gotton the idea that it could be or ever was otherwise? Even the very existence of all those religious texts concerning screwball deities confirm it over and over -- it's the only thing they get right.
Murphy rules, bro. Murphy rules. Pass the popcorn. 
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chaloobi
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Posted - 09/10/2008 : 10:08:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by chaloobi
Originally posted by filthy
Well, it's Wednesday and raining, the collider has been chilled down & fired up, and no little, bitty black holes yet. I am cautiously optimistic, or at least slightly less pessimistic than usual.
As it happens, Stephen Hawking has a $100USD bet on that there will be found no Higg's Boson, or "God particle," as it were. I'd not bet into him on the topic.
But I must remind that the only law in the whole, freakin' universe that actually means anything is Murphy's, so the findings of this magnificent experiment should be surprising at the least.
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If Murphy rules the day, we're all doomed!
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How could you have possibly gotton the idea that it could be or ever was otherwise? Even the very existence of all those religious texts concerning screwball deities confirm it over and over -- it's the only thing they get right.
Murphy rules, bro. Murphy rules. Pass the popcorn.
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In all honesty, the world being consumed by a CERN induced black hole would not bother me all that much. It's not like anything around here really matters anyway. Now, getting blown up by a religious fanatic would totally piss me off. But there's something comforting about going down a black whole with every other living thing. Afterall, dying isn't the issue. We all do that. Even extinction really isn't bothersome - what species won't go extinct? It's how you go that really matters. And even being killed by a planetary collision or by a supernova explosion isn't cooler than getting sucked into a black hole, especially one we made ourselves. |
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astropin
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Posted - 09/10/2008 : 10:21:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobiIn all honesty, the world being consumed by a CERN induced black hole would not bother me all that much. It's not like anything around here really matters anyway. Now, getting blown up by a religious fanatic would totally piss me off. But there's something comforting about going down a black whole with every other living thing. Afterall, dying isn't the issue. We all do that. Even extinction really isn't bothersome - what species won't go extinct? It's [i]how you go that really matters. And even being killed by a planetary collision or by a supernova explosion isn't cooler than getting sucked into a black hole, especially one we made ourselves.
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It would be rather poetic wouldn't it....even if a poem could never be written about it.  |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
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I found this to be accelerating
