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Re: Large Hadron Collider sabotages itself..no really

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:34 pm

Animavore wrote:Maybe Ratz will start sabotaging itself when a flood of posts come at us from the future :ask:
I've already seen a few cases of people responding to posts that haven't been made yet. :hehe:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:35 pm

wolfréalt wrote:
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wolfréalt wrote:
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wolfréalt wrote:If the LHC is stopping itself from starting, then it cant be stopping itself from starting.. :ask:
You obviously haven't read "All You Zombies".
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Post by wolfréalt » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:36 pm

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Animavore wrote:Maybe Ratz will start sabotaging itself when a flood of posts come at us from the future :ask:
I've already seen a few cases of people responding to posts that haven't been made yet. :hehe:
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Post by Deep Sea Isopod » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:47 pm

Animavore wrote:If I've learned anything from this thread, its what Alt + F4 does.

Why didn't I just ask? :lay: I lost me place now.
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Post by Animavore » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:49 pm

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Animavore wrote:If I've learned anything from this thread, its what Alt + F4 does.

Why didn't I just ask? :lay: I lost me place now.
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Post by lofuji » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:48 am

I've only just heard about this latest idea, via an email from my son. My reaction is to think that they're getting their excuses in early for when they don't find the Higgs boson, which I expected anyway. I readily admit that I don't understand most of the theory in modern cosmology, but I've long held the suspicion that the Big Bang theory is not all it's cracked up to be. No doubt someone here will enlighten me.
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:45 am

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Animavore wrote:If I've learned anything from this thread, its what Alt + F4 does.

Why didn't I just ask? :lay: I lost me place now.
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I forgot what happens, so I tried it again! :cry: :lay:
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Deep Sea Isopod wrote:I forgot what happens, so I tried it again! :cry: :lay:
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Post by Deep Sea Isopod » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:51 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Deep Sea Isopod wrote:I forgot what happens, so I tried it again! :cry: :lay:
I get that way with beer. :biggrin:
It's not even beer night for me. :begging:
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Post by Rum » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:02 pm

lofuji wrote:I've only just heard about this latest idea, via an email from my son. My reaction is to think that they're getting their excuses in early for when they don't find the Higgs boson, which I expected anyway. I readily admit that I don't understand most of the theory in modern cosmology, but I've long held the suspicion that the Big Bang theory is not all it's cracked up to be. No doubt someone here will enlighten me.
I have just finished an astonishing book called 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' by Brian Greene. One of the reasons it is astonishing besides the subject matter, as an aside, is that it helped me, a total maths dodo, to understand at least in metaphorical laypersons terms, issues ranging from resolving quantum mechanics with relativity, the nature of time and space and the nature of the stuff of the universe itself. I do recommend it.

In passing at one point he does point out that the Big Bang theory is not a theory about how the universe was created, but how it evolved from the microsecond after it came into being and for the following thirteen billion years. I knew that really, but seeing it written made me think a bit.

One of the things that I came away from reading the book with was a reminder of how deeply mysterious the universe we live in really is. Who needs the supernatural?
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:15 pm

Rrrrrrrraaaaummmme! wrote:
lofuji wrote:I've only just heard about this latest idea, via an email from my son. My reaction is to think that they're getting their excuses in early for when they don't find the Higgs boson, which I expected anyway. I readily admit that I don't understand most of the theory in modern cosmology, but I've long held the suspicion that the Big Bang theory is not all it's cracked up to be. No doubt someone here will enlighten me.
I have just finished an astonishing book called 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' by Brian Greene. One of the reasons it is astonishing besides the subject matter, as an aside, is that it helped me, a total maths dodo, to understand at least in metaphorical laypersons terms, issues ranging from resolving quantum mechanics with relativity, the nature of time and space and the nature of the stuff of the universe itself. I do recommend it.

In passing at one pint he does point out that the Big Bang theory is not a theory about how the universe was created, but how it evolved from the microsecond after it came into being and for the following thirteen billion years. I knew that really, but seeing it written made me think a bit.

One of the things that I came away from reading the book with was a reminder of how deeply mysterious the universe we live in really is. Who needs the supernatural?
Looks good, Rum. I just read the Amazon reviews. :tup:
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Post by normal » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:18 pm

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