Machine readied to create ‘mini-Big Bangs’
September 13, 2006 by Mary Wynne-Wynter
You don't need deep knowledge of particle physics to appreciate this experiment. Consider it: we could be sleepwalking, aware of only a tiny fraction of multiple, possibly limitless realities, right in front of us! I don't want to wait for the Hadron Collider. I want to wake up now.
Machine readied to create ‘mini-Big Bangs’: "
Someone will throw a switch next year to start one of the most ambitious experiments in history, probing the secrets of the universe and possibly finding new dimensions.
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Tiny black holes If the theories are correct, the machine will create tiny black holes that evaporate, and possibly even find particles indicating that the three dimensions known to mankind are just a fraction of those that actually exist.
"That would be an even bigger headline than the black holes. It could be that there is a whole new universe a millimeter away from our heads, but at right angles to the three dimensions that are here," Cox said.
"That would be a real paradigm shift — our relegation to a little sheet in a multidimensional universe. That kind of thing is really profound and will capture the imagination that perhaps the origin of mass won't, although it should.
"For the first time in many decades we have built a machine that exceeds our powers of prediction. New processes are bound to be discovered," he added. "We are truly journeying into unknown territory."
(Via MSNBC.com: Science.)