The Big Bang!!!

[Rtaxron]

Cost Billions.

What a waste of money.

[jake-the-peg]

Costs us each 2p per week

A major step in human knowledge, employs thousands and is a showcase for European technology.

Maybe you'd rather the papers just stuck to Posh's new haircut?.

[dotovaposted]

Hi Zac
I think most people have not actually aquired the knowledge of the workings of our universe and the sun to understand what it is all about, maybe they should read Stephen Hawkings more

[jake-the-peg]

Well I used to be a physicist for the Atomic Energy Authority and do have a pretty good idea of what it's for

(Not recreating the Big Bang - give me strength!)

And I can promise you nobody's going to get sucked into any black holes!

[Rtaxron]

I agree dotovaposted, and what about the deep oceans?

They believe there are unknown species in the undiscovered depths.

So why don't they start exploring them, there could be stuff down there that could cure diseases etc?

[squarebear]

Because presumably they haven't developed the technology to do that yet.

[Rtaxron]

Quote from jake-the-peg:
(Not recreating the Big Bang - give me strength!)

That's what the Media has been calling it Jake, not me.

[jake-the-peg]

You really don't have a clue do you?

Drugs companies already spend fortunes reseaching new drug sources..

Heard of a bloke called Einstein? General relativity - waste of time for egg-heads? Only your GPS wouldn't work without it!

There was a Scientist once who showed a new effect to a prime-minister - a wire spinning in a pool of mercury.


The PM said "very good but what use is it?"

The Scientist said "I don't know but I'm sure one day you'll tax it!"

The scientist was Faraday

The experiment was the first electric motor


Thankfully at the time people had more vision

[Rtaxron]

Tell us something we DONT know jake-the-peg?

Yes, I and other people on hear do know what has gone on in the past thanks, and yes I have heard of Einstein, he was Frankenstein's cousin. : -)

[jake-the-peg]

How do you expect to have an opinion on something's value when you don't understand it?

It's like if I were to say that ancient Mesopotanian culture had no bearing on modern ethical systems.

I don't know the first thing about ancient Mesopotanian culture how can I have an opinion on it.

Yet you seem to think that your understanding of the Large Hadron Collider and it's contribution to Science puts you in a position to make an informed judgement on it's worth.

Why is that?

[Rtaxron]

I am quite aware of the Large Hadron Collider and what it is supposed to achieve, I say supposed, as they cant guarantee anything yet.

I still think there is other ways that this huge amount of money could be spent, as I said in my last post.

[another-view]

Yes, perhaps they could have spent it on buying new spears to hunt mammoths with or maybe new flint axes to dig your cave out with?

[Rtaxron]

Or maybe another Black Hole to stick you in.

[Kidd72]

If you can sit through it that is.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vj50ZssEojtM

Hadron collider made simple.

[Kidd72]

oops meant to Say Hadron collider made simple