Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Can scientists really re-enact the big bang theory, and if so, what does that tell us about the origins of the universe?
This taken from www.reuters.com (read entire article):
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at a vast underground Swiss laboratory will launch an experiment on Wednesday to re-enact the "Big Bang" on a small scale to explain the origins of the universe and how it came to harbor life.
The experiment is projected to restage trillions of times the moment some 15 billion years ago when, as cosmologists believe, an unimaginably dense and hot object the size of a small coin exploded, expanding rapidly to create stars, planets and eventually life on Earth.
This may prove to be an interesting experiment, but I don't think it brings much new material to the table in terms of discovering the origins of the universe. For even a big bank requires previous elements, whose origins much have some explanation beyond the big bang itself. You can't make something out of nothing using something else.
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