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Old May 17, 2011 | 02:32 PM
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Two physicists sat down to talk about dark matter and what scientists hope to learn from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

What do we know about the universe?
5% of it is stuff we know
20% of it is dark matter (??)
75% of it we have no idea

Artist Jorge Cham from PHD Comics put the whole conversation to animation, very interesting!

Watch the movie : clicky

(Here's hoping this isn't too highbrow for NSR )
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Old May 17, 2011 | 02:41 PM
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I visited CERN when studying a-level physics , brilliant place
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Old May 17, 2011 | 03:33 PM
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"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."
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Old May 17, 2011 | 03:35 PM
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Takes about 12 to 18 hours to create dark matter yourselves...


.. just drink 4 pints of Guinness
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Old May 17, 2011 | 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Kieran_Burns
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."
What a great quote
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Old May 17, 2011 | 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Kieran_Burns
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."

I knew that.
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Old May 17, 2011 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Kieran_Burns
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know."
Rummy, got alot of stick for that, but it is actually quite clever

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Old May 18, 2011 | 03:52 PM
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The scientists know a good bit about it all of course these days, but the more they find out, the more they cannot understand or explain. They have to have resort to theories which they have not been able to prove so far and find they have to invent something which they have never seen in an attempt to back up those theories.

I hope the LHC was not a waste of money anyway!

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Old May 18, 2011 | 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Leslie
The scientists know a good bit about it all of course these days, but the more they find out, the more they cannot understand or explain. They have to have resort to theories which they have not been able to prove so far and find they have to invent something which they have never seen in an attempt to back up those theories.

I hope the LHC was not a waste of money anyway!

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Les, I don't wish to drag this thread off topic, as it's interesting enough in it's own right, but considering your stance in the Heaven thread, dont you consider it a little ironic to lambast scientists for "inventing something they have never seen".....?

On topic, hopefully LHC will start to answer, or at least to start us down the road to answer, some very fundamental questions.

Geezer
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Old May 18, 2011 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
I knew that.


Did anyone see the program 'what is reality' I think it was Horizon on BBC, it covered most of this, very interesting I thought
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Old May 18, 2011 | 05:27 PM
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https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...ntum-foam.html

Post two.
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Originally Posted by Geezer
Les, I don't wish to drag this thread off topic, as it's interesting enough in it's own right, but considering your stance in the Heaven thread, dont you consider it a little ironic to lambast scientists for "inventing something they have never seen".....?

On topic, hopefully LHC will start to answer, or at least to start us down the road to answer, some very fundamental questions.

Geezer
Well I did not intend to "lambast" them but you have to admit that what I said was right, purely as a stated fact, and nothing to do with heaven anyway!

I am as interested as you are to see what they discover with the LHC, but I hope it does deliver the goods after all. It would be a terrible waste if it doesn't.

You should realise that my major interest during my education was in fact on the scientific side as it was during my whole career.

Les, not intentionally doing a Clarke!
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