Large Hadron Collider

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As far as I can tell, the universe still exists. So that's good then.

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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. We would never know.

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(Alternatively, absolutely nothing happened.)

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For which bit? The reality-altering nonsense, or the bit about nothing happening? ;-)

I put a dishwasher tablet in the dishwasher this evening and it disappeared from sight. I couldn't work out where it had gone. My other half suggested maybe the LHC was to blame. He seemed to be suggesting that the LHC has created some kind of a black hole which goes around absorbing dishwasher tablets. Sounds plausible enough to me.

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The idea of constantly changing realities is a total headf**k. It potentially means that every moment we experience is the last one ever to exist within the current universe. That means that this current universe, the one we are perceiving now, is the most recent one, and the next to be replaced in the immediate future. I find this really hard to get my head around, because I can't extract myself from my perception of the past as things which have definitely happened and are unchangeable, the present which is more than just a singular, transitory point in time which can be destroyed as soon as it comes in to existence, and the future which seems to be moving in to the present all the time. Whenever I try to comprehend this, I end up visualising the present stretching out in to the future and always being at the "front of the line" of all the permutations of the universe. I suppose that's because it is so hard to conceptualise the destruction of the universe and its replacement with a different one.

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Oliver wrote:
I'm pretty sure that experiment has been planned for a different kind of collider

Involving Bloodline's particle accelerator?

Oliver wrote:
P.S. Hope that's not too far out of line, Blobrana

Ditto, and also @ Bloodline ;-)