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Soleron on 23 November 2009
Khuutra said:
This sounds like the potential portal to some science fiction-level stuff.

If you look into current science, most of the science fictions staples are already allowed - time travel, wormholes, teleportation, parallel universes, cloaking, fusion or antimatter drives etc. All with suitable restrictions so you can't do this stuff in your living room quite yet.

No one has any idea what a unified theory would do for us.



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Khuutra on 23 November 2009
Soleron said:
Khuutra said:
This sounds like the potential portal to some science fiction-level stuff.

If you look into current science, most of the science fictions staples are already allowed - time travel, wormholes, teleportation, parallel universes, cloaking, fusion or antimatter drives etc. All with suitable restrictions so you can't do this stuff in your living room quite yet.

No one has any idea what a unified theory would do for us.

You're telling me that reality may actually outstrip the imagination of science fiction writers

I think I'm going to explode



NJ5 on 24 November 2009

Pretty cool time lapse video of the construction:

 



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O-D-C on 24 November 2009

they should deactivate and reactive on December 20th 2012 for the lulz



Avinash_Tyagi on 24 November 2009

Where's my strangelets!



 

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