Big Bang day !!

[ace00]

I'm pretty sure it was a guy called Higgs who predicted it, not Hawking. Hawking is the black-hole wheel chair guy.

Hence, the Higg's Boson.
Hawkings' Nobel would be for predicting that mini-black holes exist. If they are created, it will confirm his theory and he will get a Nobel.

[daviejones]

Hence, the Higg's Boson.
Hawkings' Nobel would be for predicting that mini-black holes exist. If they are created, it will confirm his theory and he will get a Nobel.

What is he going to do with a 2 seater sports car?


IGMC

[moorfield]

What is he going to do with a 2 seater sports car?


IGMC

He needs a new set of wheels?

IGMC too.

[TimberWolf]

Hawkings' Nobel would be for predicting that mini-black holes exist.

Perhaps in connection with their rapid evaporation, but their existence of any size was speculated about on long before Hawking, which he may or may not get a Nobel prize for. They are still not well understood, so a lot more theories may come and go.

[Incognito]

Hawkings is good, but overrated by himself and the masses I feel. If he got the Nobel it would be for work on black holes, not directly to do with the experiments being done at Cern with the Higgs boson. I don't think he's all that highly rated by physicists (any more than anyone else), but I think more so for Hawkins than with most physicists, you wouldn't want to trust his opinion outside of the narrow realm of mathematics of black holes. In other words he don't arf talk a lot of carp and big himself up. Of course if you take his disability into account the guy is a genius, on black holes.

The whole Nobel thing and Cern hinges on whether or not they find the Higgs boson. Hawkings thinks they won't and what they will find is something akin to supersymmetric partners to particles already known about. He believes this is the elusive 'dark matter' and if found would go onto to confirm his work on string theory.

I think you're a little bit too dismissive of a very intelligent man (disability or not).

[scooterscot]

So the wife ask's 'oh have they switched it on?'

Aye

'And we're still here!' she proclaimed.

'Aye' I said 'but they're not'

'What!'

'All the scientists have disappeared the whole experiment has vanished there's no explanation - it's all over the news'


I got a good 20 seconds out of it before being chased...

[wobbegong]

He also said the chance of producing a black hole (even a tiny one) from the LHC was about 1%.

I'd have thought that a one in a hundred chance of possibly destroying the entire planet was an unacceptable risk, personally.

[sasguru]

What's sasguru's opinion on all this? After all, he's the fooking genius round here.

My opinion is that it shouldn't matter to you whether you get sucked into a black hole or not. Anything will be an improvement on living in Swindon.

[wobbegong]

My opinion is that it shouldn't matter to you whether you get sucked into a black hole or not. Anything will be an improvement on living in Swindon.

[Moscow Mule]

I'd have thought that a one in a hundred chance of possibly destroying the entire planet was an unacceptable risk, personally.

That's just a tiny one, which would (most likely) decay really quickly.

The chances of creating a "destroyer of worlds" are much smaller than that...