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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey
the truth of the matter is that this machine could be dangerous. "Experts" say no. But experts can get it wrong. Suppose the pursuit of knowledge ends up killing us all? I for one don't want my life, which I am fortunate to have, gambled with by some four-eyed egghead in a white lab coat who wants to find something out he cannot ever know the true answers to.
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What you must understand (and please don't think I'm talking down to you) is that black holes are only as dangerous as the amount of energy that you put directly into them. There's really nothing to be worried about given the design and power configurations of the particle collider.
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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey
A better question science could turn its attention to is what is the universe expanding into, and what happens when it can expand no more?
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This is where the Big Rip Theory holds water. The universe is just expanding (stretching, basically). When it can't expand anymore, then all the particles and atoms and such in existence will break apart, and they will form return to a singularity (though the atoms will be destroyed). The universe will begin again, and you repeat this same process.
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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey
Physicists don't know about what caused the universe or what was there before, and they never will. They will have theories, and hell one of them may be right, but no human will have the answer to the question they are asking.
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Nobody knows how it began, and no human will ever have the answer, be they a believer in God or a follower of science.