Big Bang in Switzerland

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Big Bang? Big load of < [-X > more like! All this from a country that so far has to its credit such World stopping items as Tobelerone, Heidi, and cuckoo clocks!
Pah! I fart in their general direction!

[lee celtic]

WE'RE DOOMED

wot ever :roll:

[KingWolf]

I read on the net today that it could take upto 30 days before anything 'could' happen so we're not out of the woods yet people...lol

Mark.

[lee celtic]

It's done now  :roll:

so if it's gonna happen all I need is a bit of warning so I can sort a few people out and down a bottle or five with the wife :D

[boss]

my thought is that there are more pressing issues at hand that the money could have been spent on! an experement by definition is something that may not happen. and it is answering a question that doesnt really need to be asked at the moment. 20bill on cancer reaserch would have been a better idea IMO.

[datalas]

It depends ...

The last set of real research into particle physics led to the understanding of thermi layers and the development of the transistor,  discovering the ellusive "god particle" or the source of dark matter / dark energy could lead to the development of cheap clean energy and spell the end of the climate change etc...

Granted any such answers are years (if not decades off) but, should that stop us doing the research ?  There are plenty of wastes of money, and whilst this one was jolly expensive, there are other, more "wasteful" projects in my opinion... besides, it keeps theoretical physicists off the streets, and that can only be a good thing.

[Tommo]

my thought is that there are more pressing issues at hand that the money could have been spent on! an experement by definition is something that may not happen. and it is answering a question that doesnt really need to be asked at the moment. 20bill on cancer reaserch would have been a better idea IMO.

Honestly its an amazing project. once it has all been sorted we could well know most things about the very fabric of the world we live in.

[ben_haynes]

Big Bang? Big load of < [-X > more like! All this from a country that so far has to its credit such World stopping items as Tobelerone, Heidi, and cuckoo clocks!
Pah! I fart in their general direction!

you forgot the Swiss Army Knife  :lol: :lol:

[strapping young lad]

swiss roll
swiss cheese
action scene in first bourne film

what more do you want

[Eeyore]

swiss roll
swiss cheese
action scene in first bourne film

what more do you want

....jewelled watch movements (the Swiss once supplied 60% of all the watches in the world)
....Lindt chocolate!
....Reis robots!

So, aside from accurate timepieces, chocolate confections, holey cheese, film locations, popular fictional childrens characters and large investment oppotunitys, the pocket utility knife and the pacafist army, what have the Swiss ever done for us?  :lol:

Shame that cuckoo clocks are Bavarian and that most of CERN and the LHC is actually in France (and funded by much of Europe).  :lol:

[Thrasher]

....and it didn't cost as much as the Olympics will  :shock:

But then when you consider "the consultants given the task of keeping down the bill for the London Olympics cost the taxpayer £87 million in the last financial year" .... no wonder!!!

[V8MoneyPit]

my thought is that there are more pressing issues at hand that the money could have been spent on! an experement by definition is something that may not happen. and it is answering a question that doesnt really need to be asked at the moment. 20bill on cancer reaserch would have been a better idea IMO.

But the suggestion is that it may lead to all sorts of discoveries, including a better understanding of such things as cancer. Now, it might be a load of taurus poo just to help justify it to the public, but then again, it might just be true! Let's hope it is and that all sorts of good will come of it.

[carracarra13]

weel so much for global warming then lol :lol:

[Bishops Finger]

The Rolling Stones did a Bigger Bang a couple of years ago...Is this similar?

[Eeyore]

The Rolling Stones did a Bigger Bang a couple of years ago...Is this similar?

Yes, but with less wrinkles in fabric of face and time!  :lol:

[V8MoneyPit]

The Rolling Stones did a Bigger Bang a couple of years ago...Is this similar?

Similar, but the big bang they are investigating is *much* younger than the Stones  :lol:

[Tommo]

This experiment is worth more than 50 olympic games'

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1096389

[laser_jock99]

Well I'm quite pleased anyway- CERN bought a few lasers off us over 10 years ago for this project. We still get paid to go out and tweak them.

Even though it's cost 4 Billion pounds that money has actually gone somewhere- keeping many British scientists, engineers and hi-tech companies like our going for the past two decades. Better than wasting it on pointless wars etc.?