CERN scientists eye parallel universe breakthrough

[Gaius Baltar]

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."

Interesting news.

Thoughts?

 

[Garth]

Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope...

Would it not be better to wait until they have some results that are more than just hope?

On the other hand, if they don't come up with the hoped for 'goods' then that would be really interesting!

But, if so, I suppose the theorists will then just say "We don't expect to find anything at this energy, it's too low, what we really need is the RLHC - the Really Large Hadron Collider, and then we:

will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra dimensions.

Just a thought.

Garth

 

[TheTechNoir]

My thoughts are a shame The Superconducting Super Collider was cancelled. :( Hoping LHC proves completely worthwhile!