I wonder if in the anti-universe...

[Fritzo]

...everyone has a beard:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100825/ts_nm/us_science_cern_matter

GENEVA (Reuters) – A huge particle detector to be mounted on the next year could find evidence for the anti-universe often evoked in science fiction, physicists said on Wednesday.
Speaking as the 8.5-tonne Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) machine was being loaded into a huge U.S. Air Force cargo plane at Geneva airport, they said the 20-year research program would bring a huge step forward in understanding the cosmos.
"If there is an anti-universe, perhaps out there beyond the edge of our universe, our space-based detector may well be able to bring us signs of its existence," U.S. scientist and Nobel laureate Samuel Ting told a news conference.
"The cosmos is the ultimate laboratory."
Ting, a 73-year-old professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is principal investigator for the project, which involves some 500 scientists and technicians round the globe.
Cosmologists say matter and anti-matter -- which annihilate each other on contact, releasing energy -- must have been made in equal quantities by the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. But the universe that emerged is overwhelmingly made up of matter.
Scientists hope the AMS will find clues to what happened to anti-matter, and whether there are other places that are almost entirely anti-matter, existing on the edge of the known universe and a mirror image of it and everything in it, including life.
DARK MATTER
The primary purpose of the detector, which has a super-powered magnet at its core, is to hunt another quarry -- the mysterious "dark," or invisible, matter that alongside dark energy makes up nearly 95 per cent of the known universe.
Scientists also hope the AMS will provide detailed knowledge of energy-charged cosmic rays -- an unexplored realm of research that can only be carried out in space.
But it may also answer questions not yet asked.
"It could turn up many surprises," said Roberto Battiston, an Italian physicist on the team. "Never have we been so aware of our ignorance -- we know that we know nothing about what makes up all but 5 per cent of our universe."
John Ellis, a described by Ting as the intellectual godfather of the project, said his aim had always been "to think of things for the experimenters to look for and hope they find something else."
The U.S. Super Galaxy aircraft is transporting the AMS to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for further tests.
In February it will be loaded onto a and delivered to the space station on a flight specially approved by the U.S. Congress after heavy lobbying by Ting and colleagues.
The AMS has been developed by an international team working at CERN, the near Geneva, whose Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator is also aiming to solve mysteries of the cosmos.
The AMS project's costs, currently estimated at around $2 billion, are being covered by 16 countries, mostly in Europe but also including the United States and China.

 

[SunnyD]

I wonder if in the anti-universe, people like FBB and Arcadio are actually....... *gasp* cool.

 

[Fritzo]

I wonder if in the anti-universe, people like FBB and Arcadio are actually....... *gasp* cool.

He would be the one WITHOUT the beard.

 

[bfdd]

I just hope this shuts up the fucking dark matter and dark energy people. That shit is so annoying. "we can't figure something out so lets make up this shit called dark matter and dark energy because it's the only way we can make our equations work." Instead of you know... maybe thinking the equations are wrong/mostly right/unfinished.

 

[SagaLore]

I just hope this shuts up the fucking dark matter and dark energy people. That shit is so annoying. "we can't figure something out so lets make up this shit called dark matter and dark energy because it's the only way we can make our equations work." Instead of you know... maybe thinking the equations are wrong/mostly right/unfinished.

What are you talking about? This thing's primary purpose to find just that:

The primary purpose of the detector, which has a super-powered magnet at its core, is to hunt another quarry -- the mysterious "dark," or invisible, matter that alongside dark energy makes up nearly 95 per cent of the known universe.

 

[Fritzo]

What are you talking about? This thing's primary purpose to find just that:

LOL- pwned!

 

[DrPizza]

I just hope this shuts up the fucking dark matter and dark energy people. That shit is so annoying. "we can't figure something out so lets make up this shit called dark matter and dark energy because it's the only way we can make our equations work." Instead of you know... maybe thinking the equations are wrong/mostly right/unfinished.

It's not just the equations - it's the OBSERVATIONS. If you saw your computer monitor suddenly lift up off your desk and move around the room, you might think "hey, something is causing that!" Or, you also might think, "lalalalalalalalalala."

 

[bfdd]

It's not just the equations - it's the OBSERVATIONS. If you saw your computer monitor suddenly lift up off your desk and move around the room, you might think "hey, something is causing that!" Or, you also might think, "lalalalalalalalalala."

Duh something is causing it, that doesn't mean their equations aren't fucked up. They can only prove the equations by observation, they observed them working, then they observed the equations not working so instead of going back and reviewing all the equations they just come up with some other lame ass theory that there's this dark matter that no one can see or even prove exists, but it's there and it's the reason our universe functions the way it does. yeah that doesn't sound anything like oh i don't know.... RELIGION. fuck

 

[Fritzo]

Duh something is causing it, that doesn't mean their equations aren't fucked up. They can only prove the equations by observation, they observed them working, then they observed the equations not working so instead of going back and reviewing all the equations they just come up with some other lame ass theory that there's this dark matter that no one can see or even prove exists, but it's there and it's the reason our universe functions the way it does. yeah that doesn't sound anything like oh i don't know.... RELIGION. fuck

OK, coming from a physics background, you really have no idea what you're talking about. You're making this very uneducated leap from "they observe the equations not working" to "they came up with some lame ass theory". Stop spouting off about something you obviously know nothing about.

 

[dr150]

Fritzo is teh funny!

 

[Fritzo]

Oh I'm pissed now. Gizmodo stole my idea:


http://gizmodo.com/5622452/goatee+bearded-evil-you-could-be-detected-by-alpha-magnetic-spectrometer

 

[Cheesemoo]

So do you think they have Ms. Anti-Universe pagents?