CERN Scientists Eye Parallel Universe Breakthrough

[The Straight Story]

CERN Scientists Eye Parallel Universe Breakthrough


GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.

And as their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva moves into high gear, they are talking increasingly of the "New Physics" on the horizon that could totally change current views of the universe and how it works.

"Parallel universes, unknown forms of matter, extra dimensions... These are not the stuff of cheap science fiction but very concrete physics theories that scientists are trying to confirm with the LHC and other experiments."

This was how the "ideas" men and women in the international research center's Theory Group, which mulls over what could be out there beyond the reach of any telescope, put it in CERN's staff-targeted Bulletin this month.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11926151

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. It brings new life to old science fiction as well...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta

[ldf]

2. you mean, like....

"The Mist"?

:-)

[MilesColtrane]

10. Yeah, all this science stuff is all well and good until they open an interdimensional portal...

and let loose thousands of giant hungry monsters from hell.

[comrade snarky]

11. Maybe it will be a portal into the Twilight Zone

And it turns out we're the monsters in a classic twist ending. Like that one with the old lady and the spaceship on the roof.


So long as Shyamalans not involved I say go for it.

[Rex]

12. Holycrap! Is THAT what was in the Mist!?!?!

Never finished watching it...okay no thanks to the Hell dimensions! Pass.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. I'm working on my TARDIS to escape just such a scenario...

[kenny blankenship]

3. How steep are the immigration requirements of this other universe?

Age? Educational status? Occupation/Income?

[pinboy3niner]

15. Must have the proper number of limbs/antennae/palps?

Or perhaps they have a liberal immigration policy like Men in Black.

[Posteritatis]

4. "..as their LHC moves into high gear.."

..I sort of like the implications that it isn't already there.

[Archae]

5. Just don't poke into Fluidic Space...

[Odin2005]

6. Good, very soon we will be able to laugh at those who bash String/M Theory.

[LongTomH]

7. No mention of "parallel universes" on CERN & LHC homepages.

Neither the LHC or the CERN web pages. The latest news release from the LHC team talks about hitting the target luminosity for 2010.

Thanks to a significant increase in the number of bunches in each beam, the 2010 target peak luminosity of 1032 cm-2 s-1 was reached on 14 October 2010, with further progress made in the following days. Soon, the attention of the LHC operators will turn to operation with lead ions throughout November.

In the last two weeks the number of bunches injected in each beam has steadily increased to reach 312, of which 295 collide in points 1 (ATLAS experiment), 5 (CMS experiment) and 8 (LHCb experiment). This has allowed the operators to reach a luminosity of 1.48x1032 cm-2 s-1, comfortably exceeding the target for 2010.

[struggle4progress]

14. Well, the article has a direct quote from They. I'm a big fan of They and always glad

to hear whatever They says about parallel universes

So just to summarize compare: I've got a direct newspaper quote about parallel universes from They, who has impeccable scientific credentials, and all you've got is something you found at some CERN website somewhere on the internet

[ooglymoogly]

8. It is only logical....kr nt

[PCIntern]

9. It's just a "theory"

Like the little angels putting the toner on the page so I can read it, since the "theory' of electricity and magnetism probably is false too...

:sarcasm: of course

[mzteris]

16. and soon we'll have the ability

to say "OH - I'll go THAT universe where I made "X" decision, and my life will be SO MUCH BETTER!!" and we get there and it turns out to be a much worse hell...


Kinda like when you look up old boy/girl friends and find out not only did they not - er - age well, they're FLAMING REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!

OH THE HORROR!

[DavidDvorkin]

17. "Cheap" science fiction? Idiot reporter.

[nashville_brook]

18. i thought the same thing!!

[mistertrickster]

19. I want to live in the universe where workers get the big money and the bosses get what ever the

workers feel like paying them.

[TrogL]

20. I'm watching last season's Fringe finale

It's all about dual universes and frankly scares me. A little too close to home.