Large Hadron Collider

[Zac67]

motorollin wrote:
How do we know it didn't destroy the universe and then create a new one? Or maybe alter this one a bit? Of course any change would have to be one which resulted in the machine still being created and used. Maybe we have been through countless permutations each with the machine altering reality in a slightly different way, until this reality eventually resulted in the machine being created and used in an identical way to the one which caused the change in the first place.

According to some experts this is exactly what happens perpetually even without an LHC at hand - see Douglas Adams for details.  :lol:  SCNR

[Zac67]

Well, even the ancient Greeks have pondered on this and more than 2k years later we're no wiser. From a pratical POV, where's the difference? There's most probably NO way to find out what's REALLY going on in this huge and strangely mysterious universe - so we should stick to the things we can understand and bear the rest with humor.

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened." (Douglas Adams, of course)

I'm dead sure that when the LHC proves parts of the string theory, some new insights will show that there's still something missing and we're not there yet after all. I don't expect this to change ever...