The Big Bang Machine - Large Hadron Collider is here... to create the big bang conditions to study particle physics! This big thing costed billions and created some fears that it would create a black hole to devour the earth.
Well particle accelerator is nothing too new. The Fermi lab is right here around Chicago (but I never visited, I SHOULD!) Besides studying the big bang, this Big Bang Machine will also try to detect the theoretical "Higgs boson", which explains a basic question: why do things have mass?
Ok, where does "mass" come from. Such basic question, yet nobody knows the answer now. And many people who don't know much about science think current science can explain everything.
There are plenty of basic questions that scientists don't have answers.
One more related topic: you may have heard of matter and anti-matter. Electrons have negative charge, and protons have positive charge. Anti-matter is reversed, and they do exist (not just in science fiction). Scientist can create anti-matter in those labs and they annihilate with matter (violently). The question is this: why does regular matter win and anti-matter loses?
Another unexplained observations are the dark matters... There is still a lot to study in physics. But not everyone can handle the ultra difficult mathematics involved.
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Hawking bets $100 it won't find the Higgs boson.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7598000/7598686.stm
It is Higgs vs Hawking.
And you think science is a bunch of ultra smart people seeking knowledge working for the common good?
Students FIGHT to get to a few spot in schools. Professors FIGHT to get fundings for their research.. Students FIGHT their professors to make sure they get credits for their findings.
The academics FIGHT to get their names known: Einstein wanna-be.
It is almost like society in martial art novels. Fortunately, no one gets killed by deadly palms and kicks.
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