Big bang machine could discover universal secrets
- Friday, 12 September 2008
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Scientists working on the machine that they hope will produce a miniature ‘big bang’ are not the first, although they may be the most financed, well-equipped and supported, people to long for visual evidence of how the universe began. For thousands of years man has told stories about the beginning of the Earth, life, stars and planets.
As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was about to be turned on, physicist Stephen Hawking made a $100 bet that it would not find the long sought after “God particle”, a particle officially called Higgs boson, which scientists have long believed to be the key to understanding the universe, but have so far failed to find.
Professor Hawking told the BBC’s Today programme that it would be "much more exciting” if the particle was not found, as scientists would have to “think again” and question their existing theories about the laws of nature, life and space.
Some ideas of what could be found through the LHC’s experiments are multiple universes, parallel worlds and black holes in space linking different levels of existence. Professor Hawking said that according to the ideas of the late atomic physicist Richard Feynman: "The Universe doesn't just have a single history, as one might think, but it has every possible history, each with its own weight."
With so many histories of life floating around light years away, it is little wonder that there are so many theories about how life started.
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Add your commentsSeptember 24 18:36
Shaun Booth
They will never get the full answers, as science is too far behind to comprehend this. They are looking in the wrong place totally, and will only find answers once they look beyond the normal practises of science.