Ok, i admit, i'm a sci-fi geek. Nothing wrong with that right? Anyway, i was (again) reading random news as usual around yahoo and i came across this article of scientists who's trying to recreate the "Big Bang" in a laboratory setting, they used the Relativistic Ion Heavy Collider or RIHC (remember this invention?). Without getting too technical, the amazing thing is that they managed to reach a temperature of 4 TRILLION degrees celcius. Youch. I don't think the term "Smokin' " is enough to explain how hot that is.
The achievements of scientists in their quest to explain the creation of the universe scientifically, ie. with proof, ie. reproducibality, recently has been astronomical. The very first Hadron Collider was first completed in 1971, and it's operational till 1984. Now the most recent upgraded version is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), which some may remember started it's experiments on September '08 (although the LHC's completed on April '07), and some may also remember that 9 days later it's operations are halted due to a fault between two superconducting bending magnets. For more read the wiki on LHC.
Anyway, with these inventions and the success of the experiments and the continuous upgrades of the colliders, i wonder if it's not long until scientists successfully reproduced a "Big Bang" and thus create a man-made universe. How exciting is that! A man-made universe means man-made planets, meaning man-made lifeforms which we would then be able to control from start to finish and not do the known irreversible mistakes that we have done on our current world. Granted, as humans we will continue to make mistakes but at the very least we won't be doing the big ones again, ie. global warming, over-exploiting resources that would cause imbalances in our eco-system and endanger our own long-term survival. Especially for our future generations. Another life-long argument would also be put to an end, hint-hint, evangelicals know what i mean, righto? Let's leave that for another time.
That's all for now, goodbye~~~ Go science!
News article: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100217/tts-us-science-physics-972e412.html
LHC Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
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