Posted on 08/31/2015 7:42:51 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
There are actually scientists saying it could open a dimensional portal. When you have Hawking worried...
It’s like Maxwell electromagnetic equations that first united the electric and magnetic field. Back then you would have been one that said, “So what “
Well all electric and electronic devices that have been developed as the result of those equations is the “so what”.
TY
If we ever travel to the stars, it will be due to research like this.
My 2 cents...
It took number theory about 2500 years to become useful, but encryption is nice.
And here I was worried about illegal Mexican immigrants.
“Besides scratching the curiosity itch, how does this benefit humanity?”
It will eventually fundamentally alter most of mankind’s technologies and economies even far more so than occurred when began to switch over technologies utilizing electricity and nuclear fission. Cheap energy production utilizing antimatter and/or zero point quantum mechanical sources may reduce the cost of energy to the point where any form of garbage can be safely recycled into their fundamental atomic elements and/or subatomic particles. Significant industrial and sewer pollution can be virtually eliminated. Seawater will be very economically desalinated in any desired quantities. Transportation technologies will be fundamentally improved by fantastically lower energy costs, super-strong yet lightweight materials, and perhaps a new found ability to exercise some control of gravity. The chemical and electronics industries will be revolutionized in countless ways given new found abilities to control chemical, magnetic, and nuclear forces. Their innovations in turn will enable new medical technologies and materials for use by medicine to replace defective body parts and combat pathogens. Container ships may become super submarines to avoid surface marine weather. Quantum mechanical computers and other electronics fundamentally later every industry....
How on earth will the discovery of semiconductivity, a mere “dirt effect” in solid state physics, ever benefit mankind? Nope, won’t happen.
That’s why the US lost the Super Conducting Super Collider project in the mid 90’s. It would’ve far more powerful than the LHC. However, some idiots didn’t care.
Benefits might be anti-gravity, zero point energy, and who knows what else.
The loss of the SSC stung me personally. I moved to Texas to work on that project.
“There are actually scientists saying it could open a dimensional portal. When you have Hawking worried...”
Your post on this thread intrigued me the most. Both regarding a dimensional portal and having Hawking worried. Would you happen to have a link to either of those? I am fascinated by this. Thanks!
From CERN:
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/physics/extra-dimensions-gravitons-and-tiny-black-holes
http://press.web.cern.ch/backgrounders/extra-dimensions
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/313922-cern-collider-hadron-higgs/
For the most interesting angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e62z5zJjp2I
An international team of physicists has found hints of leptons - a specific type of subatomic particle - behaving in strange ways not predicted by the Standard Model.
Eh. I was bored.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.