Recreating the Big Bang - in a lab

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Fascinating stuff.

A mini, scaled down version of the BIG BANG is being staged today by scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland.

The team hopes that recreating the explosion that created the world will show how the galaxy formed and how stars and planets came together. They also hope to unlock many puzzles in particle physics such as as dark matter and dark energy etc and to help us learn more about how the universe began.

Some scientists fear that this experiment might create black holes which could swallow up the earth. However, a safety review by scientists at CERN and in the United States and Russia, issued at the weekend, rejected the prospect of such outcomes.
Lets see. :)
CERN is credited with the creation of the world wide web in 1989 - the origins of this blog

The Big Bang is most probably the origin of you and me!

Comments

mathew said…
am just a few hundred kilometers aways from the place..so i get the honour of one of the first to be sucked in the black hole!!;-D
10 September 2008 at 13:32
uhu said…
If a black hole starts... there is no stopping it, till the whole earth is swallowed up. So we can all have a party in there :)
11 September 2008 at 00:56
Krishna Reddy said…
Hehe, we r still existing!
Btw, the collision hasn't yet started.
So lets party each of these remaining days!
18 September 2008 at 22:57
Lady Prism said…
One consolation about possible emerging black holes is that my bank along with my mortgage record will be sucked in with me he!he!
19 September 2008 at 12:19
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