Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble

i saw a great image of the cycle of research, where at the blog/website portion of information distribution and interpretation, you get bull shit articles like this which don't make a god damned bit of sense or leave out vital experimental information in order to write a good article about creating a universe.

Supercooled helium does not a universe make.

is it just me or is there a face in the picture ...Good eye :)

@guy

You make it seem like people are putting tons and tons of money into scientific research for no reason. Yes the problems of hunger are something that need to be resolved but you are blaming science for it? That is quite ridiculous. Much more money goes into the military or other pointless things. Science as a whole is under funded and theres a lack of scientists in the world. Although yes some projects get a lot of money, like the LHC, but most scientific research is paid for by either the government for military purposes, private companies to make a product, or where most pure research goes on, at universities. Why you are hating on science is ridiculous, since its because of scientists who are doing research just so "as long as the turbo science nerds aren’t bored and feel sufficiently superior then it’s all great and the world is a wonderful place in their heads yea!" is why your life is so easy. The basis of all application is pure research, if it wasn't for that computers wouldn't be powerful enough to do all the things they can, medicine wouldn't be as good as it is, farming techniques wouldn't be as advanced as they are, satellites wouldn't be as sophisticated as they are, and none of the commodities of modern civilization would be here. So stop bashing on science, when it is what makes life better for people. As an engineering and physics student I know that it is not useless, although its an interest to scientists and engineers, the ultimate goal is make life better for people from the research. And again I reiterate most research is paid for by universities. But most of the research cost ends up being a profit because the university takes a cut of the profits, so they can do further research and also use that to develop the school more and give scholarships to students.

Wow. I haven't heard anything that fascinating since 1978 in the movie ANIMAL HOUSE, when Donald Sutherland and Tom Hulce (Pinto) were discussing the universe while stoned.
And your choice of image is gratuitously sci-nerd pornographic.

you can send and build your Universe and send it to outer space. at www.beinspae.com

Someone spilt commas all over your article. Good one, though. I didn't know these guys were trying to do this kind of thing. It'll help to be able to replicate those conditions for study but — as you say — not at vast scales. That would be bad.

Isn't this what Steven Hawking is always talking about. How the small scale and large scale workings of the universe are the same we just don't have a unified theory?

Great!

It's only a matter of time until a teeny tiny spacefaring civilization sends out teeny tiny starships to attack us.

Way to go, rocket scientists!

The title of this article is misleading and fairly outrageous if I may say so. Based on what I just read here, they did not create a new universe, they created a vastly simplified model of one aspect of the universe in order to study inflation.

"The galaxy is on Orion's belt!"

If our universe was created in a similar way (not saying that were in a marble) and 'inflation' is was caused us to be such a vast place, then what happens when the universe in the marble starts to inflate, will it grow so large as to destroy us all here on earth and then become a universe inside of our universe?

Shouldn't that have been the first thing they considered before creating another universe?

Do you think the Scientists took Sunday off?

Anything relying on the string hypothesis is pretty much guaranteed to be bogus. The phenomena may be real, the explanation involving 3-branes is not.

Did you ever stop and think that perhaps we are just the fruit of some crazy scientist in an inemnse world?

Well if you are too dumb to explain it, interview someone for the story who can. We need to know (not really) but it would have been more interesting.

Harry "Duh" Wang

"which are created by the rapid expansion, and equally rapid slowing of the expansion; something that it’s believed our own universe did at the big bang and in the moments thereafter. How, then, did our universe go from whirlpools that could fit in a thimble to galaxies larger than our imaginations can properly comprehend? Physicists, ever ready with their dry wit, have deemed these phenomena “inflation.” Nobody knows how this works or why, this happened."
Isn't this "I don't know but it happened so believe it" exactly what you complain about me saying? The only value to an education from a "small liberal arts college" is being able to identify one's own contradictions. If you haven't even that much, why bother?

Hey, lets test out something we don't know by creating something we aren't sure what it is, then watch it while it does stuff 99 percent of the population cares less about while hundreds of thousands of people all around the world are starving to death and committing crimes and others committing suicide because their world is agony and people are wasting millions on "research" instead of funding projects that actually help people yea! But as long as the turbo science nerds aren't bored and feel sufficiently superior then it's all great and the world is a wonderful place in their heads yea!
- but seriously it stands to reason you should make sure the stone is standing on is stable before you take another step. This 3 dimensional world we live in is screwed up. Let's talk reality before we talk "what ifs"!!

what happens when the universe in the marble starts to inflate, will it grow so large as to destroy us all here on earth and then become a universe inside of our universe?

Nothing because the amount of matter and energy involved in this experiment is vanishingly small compared to that released in the Big Bankg.

is it just me or is there a face in the picture

is it just me or is there a face in the picture

The man in the moon and C3-P0 are hanging out! Good eye :)

@guy (#11)--

what are you doing on the internet, wasting time reading blogs? or even, using a computer, knowing how much waste they create? why, that's a luxury most simply can't afford. there's a world out there to save, and looking at science blogs ain't gonna do it!

now look sharp, and get to volunteering. because only when you've conquered the problems of war and hatred and poverty are you allowed to do anything, ANYTHING of scientific or intellectual value that doesn't otherwise put food on the tables of the poor or a roof over the homeless.

/sarcasm

...and we all thought the galaxy on Orion's belt in "Men in Black" was just fiction!

now we know we might be the tiny one on someone else's cat's neck, while we're making more...

Next up: The Farnsworth Parabox!

HAHAHA LOL -- they forget relativity already? Who says this universe doesn't also fit in a thimble! It would just be a massive thimble to us!

My head asplode.

Wow, not to sound geekish, but I enjoyed reading this.
I also enjoyed reading the comments, especially those about war, famine and strife.

Here's something to think about: If you sustained a severe wound, would you be satisfied with just anesthetics and painkillers, or would you want a surgeon to fix it properly.

Likewise, war and famine, fear, poverty are just different side-effects of a shortage of resources. I.e; they're afraid of running out of resources, so they take it from the next guy. Or, they're running out, but they don't have the strength to take it from the other guy, nor the guts to overcome their ego, and just plain ask nicely. The situation would change when there's a real abundance of stuff, and well, there just is, we're just not managing it well.

Take for instance, paper. WE don't really need paper, we just need a medium to write on. Computers and the internet are obviously the best way around this, as we have virtually limitless space to 'write' on. Think about other stuff, oil for instance, we already have alternative, what's holding us back?

Back to the article though, scientist may have their own personal reasons for doing this research. What's for sure is that either intentionally or as a side-effect, some technology/understanding will surface that significantly solves our problems.

I see here positive progress to understanding the fundamentals behind things like fusion power, terra-forming, gravity and more. The power of humans to make a better world lies in our knowledge and wisdom, not in our purses, for purses tend to have holes.

Do you think the Scientists took Sunday off?

@guy

Global poverty is created by governments through the IMF and World Bank.

Read a book and stop letting yourself be brainwashed.

no pics of this marble no care...