MyLife.com. 15 Rules for Living. Shaolin Monk Throws Needle Through Glass on Devour. The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World. Let's face it, we really trust science. In fact, studies suggest that the vast majority of people will murder another human being, if a guy in a lab coat tells them it's OK. But surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of events that lead to some sort of disaster that ended the world. Right? Well, here's five experiments that may prove us wrong. Recreating the Big Bang Scientists are kind of pissed that they weren't around when the Big Bang happened. The solution, science says, is to make it happen again. God, 1. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Well, first imagine an apocalyptic nuclear holocaust.
So, Basically It's Like... Imagine you have a huge tanker truck parked outside a children's hospital. How Long Have We Got? Meet the Large Hadron Collider. This is not only the largest particle accelerator ever built, it's the largest anything ever built. Risk Level: 3 The Quantum Zeno Effect Risk Level: 5. What does 0^0 (zero raised to the zeroth power) equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree. Clever student: I know! Now we just plug in x=0, and we see that zero to the zero is one! Cleverer student: No, you’re wrong! You’re not allowed to divide by zero, which you did in the last step. Which is true since anything times 0 is 0.
Cleverest student : That doesn’t work either, because if then is so your third step also involves dividing by zero which isn’t allowed! And see what happens as x>0 gets small. So, since = 1, that means that High School Teacher: Showing that approaches 1 as the positive value x gets arbitrarily close to zero does not prove that . Is undefined. does not have a value. Calculus Teacher: For all , we have Hence, That is, as x gets arbitrarily close to (but remains positive), stays at On the other hand, for real numbers y such that , we have that That is, as y gets arbitrarily close to Therefore, we see that the function has a discontinuity at the point .
But when we approach (0,0) along the line segment with y=0 and x>0 we get Therefore, the value of that will make the function ! . As. Cartoon20100715.jpg (JPEG Image, 525x407 pixels) Stansberry's Investment Advisory. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com. Alex Jones.
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