Should we tax the super rich to build a particle accelerator on the moon?

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

My wallet is open. Would pay to work at the Lunar McDonald's...or scrub the toilets. To the moon!

@DrBrianKeating

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@ZeroOskul

3 жыл бұрын

We should probably tax the super rich to fund scientific endeavors that might be useful to humanity, like: carbon cleanup or microplastic cleanup or the survival of humanity past this century. Yeah, it's fun to have exciting endeavors but it's more fun to have someone alive to achieve some kind of payoff from those fun endeavors and to have fun. But sure let us all die-off from climate catastrophes while we build a much wanted but completely unneeded moon ring... or... maybe that can wait until we are one planet of one species, one people, self-sustaining and free and safe. Whatever. This is the BEST time to be a scientist!

@rustymccaine1553

3 жыл бұрын

How about a gofundme instead . . .

@rustymccaine1553

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZeroOskul In case you’ve just been under a rock for the last year and a half, the Chinese Communists are more of a threat this century than your idiotic obsession with a few melting glaciers.

Thank You Brian for all you do for the community. Job well done so far.

Looks like you’re up 500 subscribers this week!

Awesome! Packed with science history and hopes for the future.

@DrBrianKeating

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Fascinating talk. The oceans and Moon seem implausible. The planned FCC could be the practical limit. Exceeding the LHC by a factor of 30 seems sufficient to me. 100 TeV is enough to probe particle couplings, neutrino masses, whether dark matter is a WIMP or not, and why matter outweighs dark matter.

Preshow comment: My background is in critical literary editing. Whenever I study a science topic--any subject, really--I look for the way people say things because someone can state one thing but imply another. The popularity of String "theory" got us the final steps toward completing the Large Hadron Collider because of indefinite jargon. "IF the extra dimensions of String "theory" really exist then it MAY BE POSSIBLE that there are not only extra dimensions but even extra universes but we need to see very high powered collisions to find out IF that is true, so IF we see a bit of energy go one way when we think it is supposed to go the other way, it COULD mean that String "theory" is correct." ~Prof. Dr. Brian Greene, slightly paraphrased Most people heard an almost religious statement: "There ARE extra dimensions because this theory says so, and so there ARE other universes, so MAYBE your dead friends and loved-ones MIGHT STILL BE alive somehow." I was not able to watch all of "An Elegant Universe" on TV in October 2003, because it annoyed me to no end: it never concluded anything except that String "theory" was a popular subject and lots of students were interested in it. In the description for this video, I see: "...arguing that a very high energy hadron collider on the moon COULD transform our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature." I can argue that: Yes, it could. I can argue the opposite: No, it couldn't "Could" and "Couldn't" are interchangeable subjunctive terms with one sounding more positive than the other. They both mean "Maybe" or "Might" or "Possibly". "...optimistically assuming.." does not confirm anything but the opposed pessimistic assumption. "...a CCM COULD be the (next-to) next-to-next-generation discovery machine." And "A CCM WOULD serve as an important stepping-stone towards a Planck-Scale collider sited in our Solar System." These two statements contradict. The first is subjunctive: IF it is made to exist, it MAY BECOME a stepping stone. COULD The other is absolutist: IF it is made to exist, there is no doubt of its becoming a stepping stone. WOULD It SEEMS like somebody is trying to AIDA me: Attention(A Hadron Collider on the Moon), Interest(It MIGHT advance physics so you can feel like Elon Musk), Decision(We NEED your trust and your money to do this), Action(Are you in?) " 'You look to me to be a man of great intelligence.' Always ominous words, my boy. When you hear them stay not for the purpose of your going but go at once." ~WS Burroughs

Science begins at 9:35

This is a totally mind developing episode! Let’s build it!!! Let’s build the Solar Luna Ring and then the Smasher! xD

@DrBrianKeating

3 жыл бұрын

Very bold plan!!

Amazing, in my opinion lots of money, that money can train lots of young brilliant minds, that find easy solutions.

@nunomaroco583

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there dont know if it is possible, but kind of satellite above the thunderstorm clouds, to colect data from Elves and Sprites, maybe new particles in that fenomenon.

@nunomaroco583

3 жыл бұрын

Also use the satellite kind of targuet whit various particles in difrent compartiments, and particles that came from elves and sprites can colide whit that and produce new particles, all the best.

What are the good ideas about what dark energy is? I haven’t heard a single good hypothesis.

Big thinkers need protection from small minds. Thanks Brian, “Enabler of the Impossible.”

@DrBrianKeating

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ross

How could it possibly be cheaper or easier or better to build an 11000km accelerator on the moon vs. the earth?! Comment made before video premiered... Hopefully I will be made to look a fool...

@rustymccaine1553

3 жыл бұрын

Obviously it would be safer for the earth and its inhabitants to do Frankenstein experiments like this as far from us as possible.

Fun idea but would building a structure that large on the moon not cause problems with the tides on earth or change the moon's axis like the huge dam in China does on earth ??

@stevenegg9281

3 жыл бұрын

If not ask Elon Musk 🙂

Working on convincing arguments since banging vlack holes

Would be interesting to compare LHC results w/ and w/o gravity.

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

Finally got a mental picture of electro-weak unification: length contracting towards 0. Not enough distance for both.

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

Desert? Eye of the storm.

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

Leonard Susskind binges are recommended.

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

Zero G tricks: rotate the accelerator and leave the smashed particles at rest.

@nolan412

3 жыл бұрын

Iapetus already has a platform.

Split the moon in half?

Perhaps you could get Mark Fiorentino on the show and give him a chance to talk about his theory which sounds super interesting. In this video he explains it briefly at 35:00: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dnWcrcaAZ5vAfJs.html Wonder if you'd have any opinion on it...

guest needs to life some weights.. get some MASS on them bones