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    You're probably half-joking, BlueJam - but that's the only unexpected event I'd be 'worried'/interested seeing from CERN over the next few years.

    If you suspend yourself from contemporary realworld standard model physics and imagine that all the energy forces at play in the universe are part of some superstring structure/matrix/fractal-type thing, then setting off 600 trillion energy pings in a limited-range frequency (in the next 2 and a bit years alone - rising to 600,000 trillion energy pings by 2019) might be akin to ringing a very specific bell to alien races across the universe.

    Probably not, and I'm slightly talking out of my arse here - but it's no less facile and ignorant than thinking we're all about to get consumed in a singularity.

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    • What the hell kinda jargon does this "singularity" shit come from?Khurram
    • Certainly stands a better chance of doing this than the Voyager project.SkyPoo
    • O i know! Geeks came up wiv "singularity" 4 when AI takes over from Human intelligence.. But what are YOU on about?Khurram
    • A 'black hole' is the event horizon from which light can't escape the gravitational pull of the infinitely dense ...Nairn
    • ... single point in the middle - aka 'singularity'. Kurzweil uses it too, to refer to the chronological weave point ...Nairn
    • ...where all the glorious testaments to man's genius join together to make us all like we are fucking Gods.Nairn
    • My friend G, on the other hand, uses it as an unquestionable point of truth, when he's gibbering his nuts off on Ketamine.Nairn
    • ...Ketamine. He's still not been able to furnish me with an adequate explanation of what he's actually gibbering about.Nairn
    • I'm not holding my breath for that explanation, either.Nairn
    • Kurzweil uses it in reference to machine intelligence superceding human intelligence.Khurram
    • like everyone else...Khurram
    • and i'm already a god.. dont have to wait for noffink.Khurram
    • You're half-right, Kuz - a bit limited in your scope though. AI constitutes testament to our genius. And prolly folly 2.Nairn
    • lol. That's a matter of opinion... But you're using "singularity" wrong,Khurram
    • No I'm not.

      If I am, show me.
      kthnxbai.      Nairn
    • It's not a term used by physicists to describe anything like wot u describe. It's a term used by tech geeksKhurram
    • See technological singularity:
      http://en.wikipedia.…      Khurram
    • How stupid of me to question your ego, Kuz.
      http://en.wikipedia.…      Nairn
    • And trust me, this term has been around a lot longer than geeks have been wielding for their tech fantasies.Nairn
    • (I am one of those geeks - turned on to this, and other such terms, by Eric Drexler back in the late 90s)Nairn
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