Big Bang at the atomic lab after scientists get their maths wrong

Times Online ^ | 4/8/07 | Jonathan Leake

[ryan125]

Why not? If it goes wrong and turns earth into a black hole our global warming will stop destroying the solar system.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

LOL!

Substitute endangered critters for everything but time.

Measure time by the clock.

So Jenny Eather’s Rainforest maths couldn’t come up with an enviro-friendly representation for time?

Like tree rings for instance?

Oh, that’s right, the only way to measure tree rings is by cutting down the tree.

And that’s bad...

Perhaps a sundial.

But then, sundials don’t work all that well in the rain forest. (for obvious reasons)

[John Jorsett]

[MelonFarmerJ]

'Lessee, now. Was that pi are squared or pi are rounded?' 'Round, idiot! Cobbler are squared.' 'Righto, Ricky. Make that 3.0 even.

ROFLMAO! Anyway, it's sorta scary in a way, scientists trying to replicate the "Big Bang" and making elemental mistakes like this. Global warming: it just might happen with another Big Bang........

[tet68]

I guess they haven’t created anti-matter yet or the place would cease to exist.

It’s why I gave up on Italian food, just the thought of
Pasta and Anti-pasta colliding in my stomach and the resultant release of gas, NO!

[Thumper1960]

Fear not, for the micro Black Hole would "wink out" before it could cause any damage.

Trust us....we are PhD's of impeccable credentials and we know much better than you. (you pin brained, uncouth, ignorant, religious, "gawd" worshipping, anti-science, conservative, Luddite)

/ sarc

[RockyMtnMan]

Uhhh, they’ve been making anti-matter for a while now.

http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/factory/AM-factory00.html

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes,.....Scientists with brain matter so dense, that not even light can escape it’s grasp.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Would you care to show us a physical sample of this “anit-matter”? (Theories don’t qualify)

[azhenfud]

"....aims to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang..."

“There was a hell of a bang..."

It worked. It was just a single-shot.

[SuziQ]

A £2 billion project to answer some of the biggest mysteries of the universe has been delayed by months after scientists building it made basic errors in their mathematical calculations.

Ruh Roh!

[RockyMtnMan]

Anti-hydrogen was produced by cern in September of 2002. I’m assuming you are referring to this event as an unproven theory?

[EveningStar]

Tard Ping?

Natch. :)

[Thumper1960]

I’m not sure I’m too comfortable having sloppy engineers muck around with the most basic building blocks created. It seems they’re becoming too self important and believe themselves incapable of making catastrophic mistakes.

[Eastbound]

Heh. Something like a child building his first sand castle, not knowing about the tides.

[Strategerist]

Anti-hydrogen was produced by cern in September of 2002. I’m assuming you are referring to this event as an unproven theory?

Just paint "anti-matter" on a brick and take a pic of it and post it - FR has gotten so proudly scientifically uneducated that's all people are going to accept.

[Strategerist]

This accident didn’t occur because of some misunderstanding of the fundamental forces at a particle level - it was a basic general engineering mistake, apparently (article is spectacularly thin on detail, will have to find something better.)

[Strategerist]

A much better and less dramatized article here:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=bursting-magnets-may-dela&chanId=sa003&modsrc=reuters

[Jason_b]

Yeah I was thinking this is the math curriculum the scientists were trained on, which is why they didn’t catch the error.

[oldsalt]

'Lessee, now. Was that pi are squared or pi are rounded?'

I thought everybody knew that pi are round...cornbread are square!