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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mental Trousers View Post
    The mega-geeks have calculated that 99% of everything was annihilated in the big bangs matter/anti-matter explosion, leaving us with the matter that exists today and the occasional tiny spec of anti-matter. This is a matter based universe (instead of an anti-matter universe) because there was a tiny variation in the amount of matter/anti-matter at the beginning of everything.

    The question I have is, where did all that energy from the 99% of stuff being annihilated go??
    Excellent question. What if very little anti-matter came out of the Big Bang in the initial moments? We assume equal amounts of matter/anti-matter but that could be wrong. After all, we'd also expect a Universe with matter spread thinly throughout it but instead we've got lumpy bits collected in membrane-like regions with incomprehensibly empty space in between.

    So maybe anti-matter just wasn't a goer due to an early quantum flipflop? That means no energy was lost in later annihilation.

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    It all sounds rather dodgey to me....better we spend money on the reality we know thats planet Earth rather than chasing Galactic rainbows that we'll never get to...
    I have aproblem with the ammount of money being spent on extraterestrial extravagance when we seemingly dont have enough to even start solving some of our problems here.
    Maybe the simple fact is that E doesnt equal MC2?
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    Quote Originally Posted by puddytat View Post
    It all sounds rather dodgey to me....better we spend money on the reality we know thats planet Earth rather than chasing Galactic rainbows that we'll never get to...
    I have aproblem with the ammount of money being spent on extraterestrial extravagance when we seemingly dont have enough to even start solving some of our problems here.
    That's a bit short sighted if you ask me. Improving what we have is always an effect of a better understanding of how things work. Modern motorbikes are an example. As designers and engineers have learnt more the designs and performance of bikes improves. Many of the materials in them are directly derived from aerospace and space programmes.

    Everything we have and use in every day life came, indirectly, from research programmes with far reaching goals like how the universe works.
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    This thread is fascanating. I have a basic understanding of what you lot are going on about. Isnt " What If?" an awesome question.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MentalTrousers
    That's a bit short sighted if you ask me. Improving what we have is always an effect of a better understanding of how things work. Modern motorbikes are an example. As designers and engineers have learnt more the designs and performance of bikes improves. Many of the materials in them are directly derived from aerospace and space programmes.

    Everything we have and use in every day life came, indirectly, from research programmes with far reaching goals like how the universe works.
    Oh I dunno, I'd say he has a very valid point. Because it seems like you're saying that we wouldn't have had the design and engineering advances that we have if there hadn't been Aerospace and Space Programmes? It would have been the same space superbrains working on the same "materials" but for the specific purpose of mankind. Not just working towards the SINGLE goal of getting a craft into space, but designing and building highly efficient power sources, designing and building "self sustaining" houses that could easily withstand large earthquakes, design and build machines that could recycle just about every material that we waste (computers, fridges, TV's etc...) and many many more most likely. But why bother when we could go into space, or builder a faster motorcycle... that's a very simple truth of the matter. Oh, and the waste of money .

    And puddytat is short sighted? Poppycock Sir. The materials we have would have still been created... and most likely would have come out quicker than they currently do

    Oh, and you forget the minds and billions that go into War research programmes too ... but that's ok, because it gives us robotics, advanced tracking systems etc... in return
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    Good Vid Model of LHC

    For anyone interested, here is a good video explanation of the LHC


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    How come there are no super heroes who got their powers from acceidentally crawling through the maintenance hatch just as the LHC was spinning up...?

    That's my idea, i call copyright!

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    For those interested in this stuff.... I watched this full length movie last night and found it fascinating. Its 2 and half hours long but if you have the time and inclination it really is an interesting interpretation of how the universe works.

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