What is this?

Question

Is this guy crazy or a genius?

http://www.wisdomofsolomon.com/bigbang.html

Answer 1

This reminds me of the "scare" about exploding the first
Hydrogen bomb back in the 1950's, a super atomic bomb
that takes a uranium atomic bomb to detonate it.

The fear was that it would start a chain reaction, converting
all hydrogen atoms in the surrounding air and water into Helium and blow the whole earth up.

Well, it didn't happen, just like this one didn't either.

I would like to find out more about their results over the
9 years.

The guy was a genius, not crazy, good question.

Answer 2

Sounds like ice nine - a particular crystalline form of water which crystallized all water that came in contact; so, once it existed on earth, all water became solid. Slightly troublesome. Kurt Vonnegut, I think.

Some people thought all matter in the earth would chain react to become nuclear fuel once the first fission bomb was initiated. The possibility was seriously weighed at the time (wisely).

The enormous amount of energy needed to create this thing basically indicates that is a sub-atomic black hole. These occur spontaneously throughout the universe (frequently, but not closely together, of course) and are quickly filled by nearby matter. They don't cascade into planet-eaters because the process doesn't yield energy, but consumes it (conserved as heat, of course). You might notice that full power was to be achieved around the turn of the millennium, and that the article was dated 1999. Can you hear me now?

Answer 3

We're hardly the only society in the Universe.

We're hardly the only technological society in the universe.

No other society has unmade all existence yet.

We will also not.

Besides, even if this guy DOES unmake all existence, at least I won't have to hear anyone prattle on about the presidential elections that are still a year and a half away anymore.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just saw the date on that article: 1999. Since the universe hasn't been wiped out in the last 8 years, I'm guessing the guy failed to destroy us.

Answer 4

Well, since that article is 8 years old (this week), and the thing has been running for about that long, and we're all still here, I guess none of those predictions of doom and gloom were correct -- no strange-matter chain reactions, no mini-black holes, no mini-big bangs.

The scientists mentioned in the article are geniuses, but I'm not so sure about the writer of the article.

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Answer 5

I would say an idiot. Unfortunately other idiots listened and funding for that accelerator was cut I believe. But a new and bigger one is being built in Europe instead as we speak.

The US is gradually losing its respect as not only a political and economic power. Because of idiots like that guy, creationists and greenhouse effect deniers the US is gradually losing its respect as a scientific power too.

Answer 6

both

Answer 7

he's crazy