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Showing posts with label Big Bang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Bang. Show all posts

Monday, April 7, 2008

LHC to unlock secrets of big bang


Scientists are all set to unlock the secrets of exactly how the universe began by using one of the world's largest and most expensive science machines -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

They will utilize it to recreate the conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the big bang, that is the birth of universe, by smashing pieces of atoms together at high speed.

The 4.4 billion pounds new particle accelerator, which is buried 300 ft beneath the alpine foothills along the Swiss French border, is 17 miles long and up to 12 stories high. It can generate temperatures of a trillion degrees centigrade. Read in here and here..

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Big Bang explained, well kind of...



Need I say more. But I have a few unanswered questions:
1. If the Universe is about 100 Billion light years across and only 14 billion years old, would that not mean then that the Universe is expanding at a rate of 3.5 times the speed of Light. Wow, would that not mean that we can never see the other end of the universe, or even it's center. Bummer.

2. If the Universe was the size of a Neutron to begin with, what were we comparing the size to. Where was this neutron sized Universe sitting, or Floating if there is no such thing a space beyond it. Bummer again.

3. If the Universe is expanding, then where is it expanding into. Where does this Universe occupy this massive space.

4. Why would objects move away from us at a speed of distance squared. Aren't they supposed to slow down as they move further away. If the expansion is accelerating, then isn't it matter which is actually going to finally move faster than light. Bummer again.

5. When Universe was the size of a Neutron, what was it;s composition? Was it matter, with mass, or was it energy. If it was matter, (we are talking size, aren't we) then what kind of matter was it. If it was energy, then where does the question of size creep in?

??? Have lot more , but seriously....