How does the LHC differ from the SCSC?

Could there be a silver lining in the death of SCSC?

Has the Urantia Book been of any help to the understanding of this enterprise?

Enjoyed the program. My daughter, a high school student at Phillips Andover,spent time with the scientists at the program last summer and was able to interview some of the most senior people such as John Ellis, one of the masterminds of particle physics.

Carolyn won a grant from her school to interview these people. Her goal was to look at the human element behind the science and to make the science accessible to everyday people. The folks at CERN treated her as though she was from the NY Times. Carolyn wrote an excellent blog on her visit at http://lhcmatters.blogspot.com.

I think the experiments are worth doing for their own sake, but if you insist: the most immediate benefits will likely be in micro-electronics and nanotechnology. After that, who knows

I agree on both counts!

Human beings are wired up to be curious and to continually strive to understand the world around them, building cognitive models of their world and testing them out. This has tremendous survival value, so much so that it’s hardwired into our nature – a basic appetitive drive like sex or tasty food – this is a fundamentally human thing to do.

In addition to that it may well turn out to have practical value – that would be great, but to me it’s icing on the cake.

BTW, most people don’t realize how amazing the technology is in their own possession. For example, flash memory is based on quantum mechanics (specifically quantum tunneling) – the very thing Einsten didn’t believe because he though that “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.” Yet today the thing Einstein didn’t believe is in all our iPods and cellphones.

“Iam just wondering, What if there was no Big Bang for the creation of this world and God really does exist and he is the one created the world….. what will happend to this experient then?? Billions of dollars wasted?” -Deeno

However you believe the universe came into being, it has the appearance of being governed by rules, and the LHC will help us better understand those rules.

At some point will god unleash her wrath upon us for calling her, “him?”

Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your shows. Very illuminating and educating. Just one question: why is George Bush treated with kid gloves? I am reading Vincent Bugliosi’s book on the case for charging Bush with murder and am not aware of any network/paper debating this subject.
Will you?
Thanks so much
Peter

As a mathematical physicist and having immensely enjoyed our visit to CERN with your group last year I have serious doubts that the Higgs Boson will be found because a successful and published algebraic theory for the Standard Model developed over many years does not find a place for the Higgs.

Everything is random? Do you realize the slim, slim, slim margin by which it’s possible for life as we know it to exist? The slightest change in gravity, stronger or weaker, would have tremendous effects on the life cycles of stars, and their ability to produce energy needed for life. The strong and weak nuclear forces, as well, are finely balanced. Then think of like itself; DNA is very much like a file system in and of itself; it’s a helix of data that’s read by the body and manifests itself as programming on how to build a life-form. Does such a thing really seem random to you?

I won’t argue theology here. I will say that the data we have on hand agrees that from the solar system level onwards, (which is all we can investigate in detail,) natural processes are responsible for the formation of stars and planets. However, one should not confuse natural processes with random processes. Gravity is a constant, not a random value. While a star’s output of energy varies, it is not random; the fluctuations may be variable, and chaotic, but certainly not random. For instance, we can predict the life cycle of the youngest star based on the spectrum of light it emits and it’s mass. Things like this aren’t the product of a random universe, but a universe that follows rules. There absolutely is order in this universe, even if there are chaotic elements, as well. And in the end, even chaos can be quantified, to a degree.

Thank you to ON POINT and the Guest of the Crash! Bang! The Large Hadron Collider show.

I thought the Guest explained the sceince and theories behind this experiment in a simple and entertaining way that brough a lay person like myself to understand it.

we need more shows and sciencists like these to keep the mob at bay.

well done, keep up the good work.

one question I wish I could have asked. What if the experiment doesn’t produce proof of theory they are looking for? is it back to square one? is Einstein wrong?

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