Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang'

buildslave writes "The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on the Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November. The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the center of the Sun."

a mini big bang theory

[obergfellja]

BAZINGA!

Mini - Big ?

[TechyImmigrant]

Wouldn't a mini big bang just be a moderate bang?

Next step...

[durrr]

Now show us a real big-bang so the creationists are silenced

'alternative' summary

[TuxCoder]

So some scientists did some banging at the large hardon collider over the weekend and said it was really hott.

Just you wait...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Now, if we can just wait a few billion years, a suitably intelligent species should evolve inside the newly created universe and build a Very Very Very Small Hadron Collider(VVVSHC) in order to investigate the conditions of their early universe....

Re:Next step...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now show us a real big-bang so the creationists are silenced

Yes, humans creating a real big bang will definitely silence those who believe in Intelligent Design. Brilliant!

Calling All Dan Brown Fans...

[Samantha Wright]

The window in which you can make stupid comments about playing god and recursing (no tired xkcd links allowed, about either pebbles or carving dice) is now closing. Please get in your cheesy gloom-and-doom scenarios ASAP, and make wild, uneducated suppositions about micro black holes while you're at it.

Re:Just you wait...

[omnichad]

Horton, is that you?

ALICE? ALICE?

[demonbug]

Who the fuck is ALICE?

One of the accelerator's experiments, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions...

Well, I guess that answers that.

Re:'alternative' summary

[sconeu]

Is that what they call "sexing-up" the story?

Re:We're still here

[VShael]

If we are gods, we can only hope our creations are morally superior to us.

Hey, suddenly Jehovah the blood thirsty desert god makes a lot more sense.

Re:Next step...

[bittles]

to understand recursion you must understand recursion

Re:Mini - Big ?

[RevWaldo]

Actually the official sizes are Short Bang, Tall Bang, Grande Bang, and Vente Bang.

.

Re:Am I dead?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, it's just monday...

Pah!

[Cloud K]

The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun

NVidia achieved that years ago.

If we do it all together?

[bradley13]

And if we do it all together, is it a gang bang?

Re:Mini - Big ?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I mini big bang would be just like a regular big bang in every detail...but only one eighth the size.

Can we patent this?

[Mike Zahalan]

This is all fine, until Oracle buys the LHC and offers an Enterprise Level "Bang" and a free-bang.

Re:frist

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

"The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun."

They cloned JLo's arse?

Re:frist

[Pojut]

They cloned JLo's arse?

"You know J-Lo doesn't speak spanish, right?"
"She may not, but her ass sure as hell does."

Re:Science Journalism

[Dr.Boje]

You are dealing with people that mostly wouldn't remember what an "ion" is. When you say "smashing iron", they think of banging two iron bars together.

Those are the kind of people we don't want coming to Slashdot anymore.

Re:Science Journalism

[Anonymous Coward]

They never like my story; only those "old guys". Mine is like this: In the beginning there was God. He created a big firecracker for fun. Unfortunately his big bang killed him and he got a Darwin award. Fortunately for us, his big bang created the universe.

Re:Sooo.....

[NotBornYesterday]

Freeon is the open source version of Freon, and is more properly called GNU/Freeon.

Re:Science Journalism

[querist]

But it wasn't that great, apparently. Eccentrica Gallumbits said that Zaphod Beeblebrox was "the best bang since the big one."

Re:frist

[Pojut]

Mini AND big??? Whoa, man...

Re:Mini - Big ?

[TubeSteak]

What kind of coffee shops are you attending?

The kind that are pretentious enough to think they create a universe in every cup?

Re:Science Journalism

[Anonymous Coward]

the car, or manufacturer for that matter, doesn't proclaim itself the savior for all mankind either.

Re:Science Journalism

[daid303]

Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.

It's just a very nice side-effect.

Re:Science Journalism

[jgagnon]

You've never heard of a Prius? :p

Re:Science Journalism

[JustABlitheringIdiot]

So, is a mini-big bang just a bang, then?

I hate this constant need for science journalists to oversell and over-hype an outstanding achievement with misleading hyperbole. They didn't create mini big bangs. They smashed lead ions to try to recreate the conditions that existed shortly after the big bang. It's already an impressive enough achievement without cheapening it with sensationalist BS.

Absolutely right no need to over hype it and create big headlines. Just give them credit for the bang-up job.

Re:Sooo.....

[An ominous Cow art]

That's what the Free Mesons want you to believe.

Re:Mini - Big ?

[Anonymous Coward]

At least it wasn't a Cillit Bang.