h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If it starts a new universe, maybe Donnie Darko will return to life. Frank the is hoping so, anyway.

But are we really sure that this isn't a case of 'the King's New Clothes'.

OK - if it does go 'BANG' we can believe that it was money well spent.

But - we are led to believe that these chaps have built 27 km of very expensively equipped tunnel around which they are are racing things so small that you can't actually see them and they are moving so unbelievably fast that you couldn't see them if you could (only 'THEY' can see them) and if/when they crash together and if they DON'T make a tiny black hole into which we all vanish, because in the billionth of a second that it was there, it disappeared (and only THEY' could see it happening, cos only 'THEY' have the equipment and intelligence to be able to see anything that small for that length of time) 'THEY' will be able to deduce all sorts of things and we will have to believe them because unless we build another 27 km of very expensively equipped tunnel around which they are are racing things so small that you can't ............

And so - you get into a circular argument - all 27 km of it.

As far as I can see 'THEY' will be able to tell us that they have discovered whatever they like as nobody, but nobody (unless they happen to have another hadron collider in their back garden), will be in a position to argue with anything that they claim.

: build us a 27 kilometre long circular tunnel equipped with costly thingamagics or we will - HA-HAH! - poison your and

who of us would be able to stand a thread like that

oh, and speaking of black holes: i was married to one

if it don't work or they don't find any answers, it could be a good Scalextric track

Only a scientist would understand what a neat toy this is.

£5bn ought to buy anybody quite a nice toy.
One thing that worries me - do the little things whizzing round and round have to pass through any customs formalities when they pass between Switzerland and France and back again 11,0000 times a second?

only if they carry or or , i reckon

It would slow them down too much to pass through customs.

hm, yes, the big nag

doyouhaveanythingor sod it

Anyway - why is it called the big 'BANG'? If the first one took place in a complete vacuum, wouldn't it have been silent?

Unless - of course - there is a 27 km tunnel floating around there, somewhere in space, where 'they' started the original universe. Maybe it's now being used as a scalextrix track!

the big phart just wouldn't look the same

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Be afraid, be very afraid--especially if you see men in evil-looking bunyn suits wandering around.

What exactly is a bunyn suit??

I think it's something to do with a bunsen burner, Lew.

Jab

Sorry, bunyn was a typo.
Frank the Bunny is especially ominous, because he always starts out by saying that the world is going to end in 28 days. Not exactly great party conversation.

i would have thought it would convince people to party hard while they still can

but maybe he's not all that convincing?



ps: how's that doomsday machine w*rking now, btw? anyone got any new news about it?

pps: DNA said something like "the instant someone figures out why the universe is so bizarre and inexplicable, it will instantly be replaced by something even more bizarre and inaxplicable - and some say this has already happened!"

maybe it's happened yet again?

On post 31, it should have been very noisy indeed inside its locus, which, according to current myth and legend, was the entirety of the universe at the time, not that I believe that.

I'm personally more interested in confirmations on the Fermi unification energy for the gravitational/inertial and electromagnetic fields (which have already been unified with the strong and weak nuclear forces). That should yield clues allowing one to place intelligent and informed bets on what we may see at the Wilson/Penzias threshold when resolution of the imagery becomes refined enough. Will it be:

1. More and more of the old stuff getting lost to view with increasing time.

2. The same old stuff getting more and more spread out with passing time.

or,

3. More and more new stuff constantly coming into view.

I'm personally inclined to think that it will be answer number three, but ultimately the determination depends on actual observation.