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Uh... No, it isn't.

If you have to take your scientific instruction from popular culture, why not try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

White people... What can I say?

The comment that I found below this video says it all. "Our lives depend on these people?"


And for the record, no, I dont think the world is going to end.

Aw for the love of God, I have a Maths test and a French Oral tomorrow. Couldn't they shove the end of the world forward a day? And I have Wednesday off anyway. Great, I get to die in bed

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Talking of stamps in the passport, off on holiday to Malta on the 20th, shame that the world will have ended before we go

I hope it's only for 1 week, it's a really small island. And if CERN does make some black holes it's going to be a whole lot smaller.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Aw for the love of God, I have a Maths test and a French Oral tomorrow. Couldn't they shove the end of the world forward a day? And I have Wednesday off anyway. Great, I get to die in bed

I have a French test on Friday

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

xD Haven't done my test yet. Booking my test as soon as they get back to me, then I have to insure it

Talking of stamps in the passport, off on holiday to Malta on the 20th, shame that the world will have ended before we go

For years I used to ride a bike without doing any test, if you ride responsibly you're less likely to get pulled and it isn't like when a cop see's a youthful guy in a flash saloon who'll get pulled over every 10 yards, on a bike your face is covered so you can ride way under age too... not that I'd recommend any do that

Malta is part of the EU though, so no stamp in your passport :/

OK so the reactor, although that's a bad choice of word seeing as it sucks in French nuclear power stations and outputs insufficient juice to run a lightbulb, so the funny discy thing in the ground is to prove some aspect of string theory.

Now string theory, as I understand it, is the hypothesis that the universe is made of vibrating spaghetti. These pasta based strings, when vibrating at different speeds, produce matter and backpocket the anti-matter in the 11th dimension.

What I want to know is where are the meetballs?

And how the hell did Pastafarianism get that much funding?

I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love

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Although i'm sure the world wont end this week one thing I am curious to know is CERN's position on the stringlet quark thingamies, the ones that turn all other matter into more of themselves, like an atomic sexually transmitted disease.

This has also been touted as another doomsday scenario but I cant find a suiteably simple easy to digest for the masses Beckyfied explanation of what the odds of that are, all the reassurances are about black holes. Infact I see a video of a CERN representative earlier get asked the question and he answered about black holes instead.

So what's the deal with that, am I going to be protonically pillaged by a sexually transmitted atom?

Are stranglets actually confirmed to exist? I thought they were just another "theory" from the press of what could happen to the earth.


Guys if you think about what is actually happening in the LHC - its just hitting two little bits together really really fast. Why would it spawn a black hole if its just a collision and a transfer of momentum and energy? Its all silly talk.

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If it actually does go wrong this thime then I blame Steven Hawkins.

yep, just point the finger at the nearest brainy person

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We can sort of make the mathematical models work by suggesting that 23% of everything is invisible and undetectable because it's too "dark" to see it (Dark Matter).

Dark matter is too far away and moving faster than time and light.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=914882#post914882

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how the hell did Pastafarianism get that much funding?

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The challenge is modeled after a similar challenge issued by young-Earth creationist Kent Hovind (an award of $250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution "is the only possible way" that the Universe and life arose).

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For years I used to ride a bike without doing any test, if you ride responsibly you're less likely to get pulled and it isn't like when a cop see's a youthful guy in a flash saloon who'll get pulled over every 10 yards, on a bike your face is covered so you can ride way under age too... not that I'd recommend any do that

Malta is part of the EU though, so no stamp in your passport :/

:sadbanana

wtf -

Quote from pacesetter :

My opinion is it isnt gonna end!!!! This is just the big bang theory. What about other theories, my Geography teacher was telling me that it was particles of dust stuck together by gravity sucking them in (creating layers) so..................... believe what you want to believe

yeah, it's not gonna end in any hurry anyway, what happens is the question though, some say the galaxys expansion will slow down and then all the matter inside will pull it all back inward in a big crunch possibly reversing time.

your Geography teacher was explaining the birth of a solar system and how gravity forms gases/matter/liquid.

But the universe can, at no point, be smaller than a string, contained within that string will be 1 or more dimensions with all the matter in, therefor the the big crunch wont necessarily increase the square footage cost of land on Manhattan Island.

We perceive the universe in 3 dimensions, with time being our fourth. String theory is consistent with a 10, 11, 16, or 32 dimension universe. Therefore the universe might well be compacting in other dimensions, whilst expanding in our own.

As you can see, i've not quite worked this bit out yet, but neither has Steven Hawkin either, so i'm excused.

oh becky i love when you talk dirty

11 dimensions this gets me on

oh yea....

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well, they say the end of the worl will happen in 17.12.2011. the mayan religion says that, one other japanese religion says that and some crazy people from past say that.

gonna correct you there- it's supposedly going to be 21/12/2012, not what you put it's when the Mayan calendar completes it's 13th B'ak'tun cycle, resetting to 13,0,0,0 and supposedly whenever it resets something bad happens

IF something happens, it's likely to be along the lines of a magnetic reversal, which would spell disaster for anything that happened to be in the air at the time, planes would drop out the sky etc, compasses would be all but useless, birds would go crazy. Or if you really want the world to end, Yellowstone could erupt. I bet neither of these will happen though, the only thing that will happen on that day is the Earth keeps orbiting the sun like always....

A similar thread to this came up on another forum I post on a month or so ago, someone getting all wound up because they heard that 'the world will end because somethings gonna create a blackhole and we'll all die'. Took quite a lot of explaining to calm him down

wasn't it that gravitons are "escaping" into these extra dimensions, to justify it is one of CERN's goals. There was a BBC docu about it lately on TV.

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Dark matter is too far away and moving faster than time and light.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.p...882#post914882

Um no, is the answer to that. The theory (and I say theory with great emphasis) of Dark Matter is that there's too much matter in the universe and according to Newton there should be some anti-matter kicking around somewhere (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction).

However, Newton, brilliant though he was, was not armed with an E in GCSE Single Sciene and so had no comprehension of Quantum Mechanics as the whole concept didnt exist in his day. Mind you before his time gravity didnt exist either, yet they couldnt figure out flight! Daft sods... Anyway I digress...

The concept of Dark Matter is sound, there is somewhere a reaction to all of the matter in the universe, and we dont know where it is. Hawkins thinks it's 300ft underground in a Yorkshire mineshaft and that he can see it with a Xenon lightbulb. I've told him to his face that he's wrong, but I was at the time an actress off set and sporting a rather uncomfortable suite of armour and i'm not sure he completely believed me.

Anyway, the point being that there is not enough anti-matter in the universe, dark matter as a concept explains it. That is... We know it exists but we cant see it. Where dark matter falls over is in specifying that it's hiding in Yorkshire.

Under string theory it could be that we find a whole lot more than dark matter in n dimensional space. We'll probably find Elvis there too, holding a black hole.

It's not the black holes that'll destroy civilisation, it's the giant beserk robot spiders.

I wonder what kind of sound effects a blackhole would produce /me hopes for that comical "pop" just as we're all squeezed into oblivion. Might as well go laughing

Laughing or screaming?

seriously i wouldnt care, better be mexico=corruption, murders, kidnapping, drugs...

...Do teh spaghettis and brains follow the same rule as Quantum chromodynamics?...like charges of partons exchanging or discharging from one space sector to another like weather, p-brain to p-brain. i remember seeing on TV how it was possible to stop light, they imagined a light-beam bouncing in a tube going up/down at a constant rate, they then went around the world the opposite way really fast and the light stopped along with time...or something, i think i'm probable confused. again!

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gonna correct you there- it's supposedly going to be 21/12/2012, not what you put it's when the Mayan calendar completes it's 13th B'ak'tun cycle, resetting to 13,0,0,0 and supposedly whenever it resets something bad happens

IF something happens, it's likely to be along the lines of a magnetic reversal, which would spell disaster for anything that happened to be in the air at the time, planes would drop out the sky etc, compasses would be all but useless, birds would go crazy. Or if you really want the world to end, Yellowstone could erupt. I bet neither of these will happen though, the only thing that will happen on that day is the Earth keeps orbiting the sun like always....

A similar thread to this came up on another forum I post on a month or so ago, someone getting all wound up because they heard that 'the world will end because somethings gonna create a blackhole and we'll all die'. Took quite a lot of explaining to calm him down

Hey mook, how much was jackin crapping it over this on ovalchat, he was nearly in tears a couple of weeks back!

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The concept of Dark Matter is sound, there is somewhere a reaction to all of the matter in the universe, and we dont know where it is. Hawkins thinks it's 300ft underground in a Yorkshire mineshaft and that he can see it with a Xenon lightbulb. I've told him to his face that he's wrong, but I was at the time an actress off set and sporting a rather uncomfortable suite of armour and i'm not sure he completely believed me.

Epic fail by hawkins, its in my shed really, i just didnt want to draw too much attention to it (many padlocks on the door!) but if we are all fcuked anyway, i might as well tell the (LFS)world!

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...Do teh spaghettis and brains follow the same rule as Quantum chromodynamics?

String Theory is the buddism of science. It takes faith to believe in and encompasses all other sciences. Your Quantum Chromodynamics are still fine, and a tree falling in the forest still makes no sound on account of not existing (at least in observable dimensions).