RocketMan on 17/9/2008 at 16:13
I wonder if the LHC will give a little bit of a boost to sting theory. We're still hopelessly far away from achieving the planck energy but I'm sure the raw power of this bastard will show us shit we've never seen before!
The_Raven on 17/9/2008 at 17:51
Extreme time dilation, here we come. :D
Kolya on 18/9/2008 at 04:23
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That exact scene had occured to me, too.
That remake video is excellent! (Though the pacing at the end seems slightly off from the original...)
Same here. Was thinking off (
http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/telechargement.htm) Another World all along when I read about the collider.
Kolya on 18/9/2008 at 18:29
Old hat. Unlike the Sting picture, which is classic.
demagogue on 18/9/2008 at 18:54
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Unlike the Sting picture, which is classic.
And bonus points in this thread (from my pov anyway) because Chris Foss was the art director for the original (canceled) Dune movie, much of which survived into the Lynch version IMO.
Schattentänzer on 18/9/2008 at 19:41
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ZylonBane
And did you read it? My question was what he means by 'achieving planck energy'. It's a unit- it's like saying 'I hope we will achieve Cubic Furlongs'
RocketMan on 18/9/2008 at 21:09
I think what ZB was trying to point out, and what I initially meant, is that the planck energy is a quantity of energy with a Joule, MeV, W-hr, etc. value. In this context it's not a unit although you might be thinking of Planck's constant "h" but even that isn't a unit really. It's just a number like pi although you'd be correct in saying it's meaningless to achieve h just like it's meaningless to achieve pi. I was talking about a quantity that you can achieve. It's in the article if you're interested.
It is hypothesised that cosmic strings, hypothetical relics of the big bang would have such an energy and yet still be elementary. They would also be macroscopic because of their huge energy. However things this energetic decay rediculously fast into more stable particles and are unlikely to survive. The only way we'd ever see one is in a particle accelerator. I hope my info is accurate since I'm going from memory.
