Parallel dimension anyone?
Monday, November 9th, 2009
A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or “unknown unknowns” – for instance “an extra dimension”. – But will it stop experiments? I highly doubt it!
The LHC is a 27 Kilometre underground ‘doughnut’ for firing around or colliding high-speed hadrons, usually protons or lead irons – but what for I hear you cry. Well these collisions can be very violent creating conditions similar to the time of the big bang when the entire universe was in its infancy. Apparently smaller than a proton for some time, a concept that pecks my head if I think about it too long.
So juggling the very fabric of space and time, although it fascinates me it’s also pretty scary. I mean what if we were to pull ‘something’ through or cause mass destruction if there are parallel worlds? What consequences could it have to our own world? Is mankind all too eager to ‘flip the switch’ all the time without taking a step back? Are we selfish? All good questions sadly I can’t answer for the whole of mankind. Science is moving on in huge leaps now not the fairy steps we saw in the 50’s and 60’s. Other reports suggest the LHC could ‘accidently’ create a black hole which would, rather annoyingly, vacuum most of our solar system into it destroying most if not all of the life therein! Something to look forward to wouldn’t you agree..?
If something could be this devastating do we not think a global online vote would be the way to decide whether or not it gets built? After all its tax payers cash, I don’t really want to play Half Life for real…
