Hottest temperature ever heads science to Big Bang

[Rich Parsons]

Per: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100215/sc_nm/us_physics_temperature


Hottest temperature ever heads science to Big Bang

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor – Mon Feb 15, 11:23 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.

They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.

 

[shesulsa]

So essentially they have recreated the big bang in a petrie dish. So ... will they be creating life next? Not to minimize the amazing scientific feat, but ... I's just askin'.

 

[CoryKS]

People often wonder what came before the Big Bang.

I hope it wasn't four nerds and a petrie dish.

As long as they don't say the magic incantion - "Here, hold my beer" - we should be okay.

 

[Omar B]

So essentially they have recreated the big bang in a petrie dish. So ... will they be creating life next? Not to minimize the amazing scientific feat, but ... I's just askin'.

It's already been done. Carbon in a saline solution exposed to the full radiation spectrum we would experience without an atmosphere had the carbon change into amino acids (aka proteins), the building blocks of life.

But yeah, I've been following this story quite intently. My father won't stop going on about it.

 

[Xue Sheng]

People often wonder what came before the Big Bang.

I hope it wasn't four nerds and a petrie dish.

As long as they don't say the magic incantion - "Here, hold my beer" - we should be okay.

I have always felt that what came before the last big bang was some guy in a lab who said "EUREKA I have discovered what caused the" …… BANG

And it started all over again.

 

[shesulsa]

I have always felt that what came before the last big bang was some guy in a lab who said "EUREKA I have discovered what caused the" …… BANG

And it started all over again.

It's the CIRcle of LI-I-I-I-I-IFE ... and it moves us a-a-a-a-all ...

c'mon, sing with me now ...

 

[CoryKS]

It's the CIRcle of LI-I-I-I-I-IFE ... and it moves us a-a-a-a-all ...

c'mon, sing with me now ...

Seems more like a Circle of Utter Annihilation to me, but hey - I'm a pessimist. We tend to see the glass half blowed-up.

 

[Xue Sheng]

It's the CIRcle of LI-I-I-I-I-IFE ... and it moves us a-a-a-a-all ...

c'mon, sing with me now ...

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

Seems more like a Circle of Utter Annihilation to me, but hey - I'm a pessimist. We tend to see the glass half blowed-up.

BANG!!!!
:redeme:
From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

BANG!!!

OK, I'll stop now

 

[Rich Parsons]

So essentially they have recreated the big bang in a petrie dish. So ... will they be creating life next? Not to minimize the amazing scientific feat, but ... I's just askin'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller–Urey_experiment

 

[Bill Mattocks]

So essentially they have recreated the big bang in a petrie dish. So ... will they be creating life next? Not to minimize the amazing scientific feat, but ... I's just askin'.

Yep.

Or re-engineering it anyway.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18523-genetic-code-20-life-gets-a-new-operating-system.html

In all existing life forms, the four "letters" of the genetic code, called nucleotides, are read in triplets, so that every three nucleotides encode a single amino acid.
Not any more. Jason Chin at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues have now redesigned the cell's machinery so that it reads the genetic code in quadruplets.
In the genetic code that life has used up to now, there are 64 possible triplet combinations of the four nucleotide letters; these genetic "words" are called codons. Each codon either codes for an amino acid or tells the cell to stop making a protein chain. Now Chin's team have created 256 blank four-letter codons that can be assigned to amino acids that don't even exist yet.

And you know the song..."We will all go together when we go" by Tom Lehrer:

And we will all go together when we go.
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we all will go together when we go.

We will all go together when we go.
All suffuse with an incandescent glow.
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance,
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go.

Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
We'll be french fried potatoes by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

Down by the old maelstrom,
There'll be a storm before the calm.

And we will all bake together when we bake.
There'll be nobody present at the wake.
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak.

Oh we will all char together when we char.
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
Just sing out a Te Deum
When you see that I.C.B.M.,
And the party will be "come as you are."

Oh we will all burn together when we burn.
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn.
When it's time for the fallout
And Saint Peter calls us all out,
We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn.

You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas.
Go directly, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dolla's.

And we will all go together when we go.
Ev'ry Hottenhot and ev'ry Eskimo.
When the air becomes uranious,
And we will all go simultaneous.
Yes we all will go together
When we all go together,
Yes we all will go together when we go.