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Remembering Aquino Braganca (b. 6 April 1924), who fought for freedom
of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa. An online tribute
http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical
references, some photographs and documents)
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Fr. Ivo wrote:
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>I have already answered that Science cannot create, and the scientific
>experiment of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gives us the confirmation.
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The above is pure nonsense. The Large Hadron Collider is simply meant to create
the temperatures and conditions that existed almost at the time (billionths of
a second after it) of the Big Bang. This instrument is not yet fully
functional. I believe the real experiments will start in September 2009.
Please see the following site for lay information about it:
http://www.lhc.ac.uk/about-the-lhc/faqs.html
Here is the pertinent quote that refutes the claim in the above quote from Fr.
Ivo:
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(QUESTION) I have heard that the LHC will recreate the Big Bang, does that mean
it might create another Universe and if so what will happen to our Universe?
(ANSWER) People sometimes refer to recreating the Big Bang, but this is
misleading. What they actually mean is:
* recreating the conditions and energies that existed shortly after the
start of the Big Bang, not the moment at which the Big Bang started,
* recreating conditions on a microscale, not on the same scale as the
original Big Bang and,
* recreating energies that are continually being produced naturally (by
high energy cosmic rays hitting the earth’s atmosphere) but at will and inside
sophisticated detectors that track what is happening.
No Big Bang – so no possibility of creating a new Universe.
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Cheers,
Santosh
