Um, there won't be any kingdom come.  Nope, these idiots will have blown it the f**k up and we'll all have to go to h*ll instead.

It's like the drunk who thought he'd sit on the bonfire to keep warm on Winter's night.  I said to him that although he could easily park his arse on the fire to warm himself up, it didn't mean that he should.  Just because these idiots can, don't make it the right thing to do... so therefore they shouldn't.

Scientists only look at what they 'think' will happen. Never at what the possible consequences will be. The so-called 'advancement' of science outweighs everything else.

I'm guessing the people jumping to fund it are more interested in the weapon potential of the tech.

Well, to be fair I could step outside of my house and that pressure differential introduced to the ground 'could' cause the earth to crack in half ... technically ... but I don't 'think' that it is likely to happen. Heck, we could take a whole pile of things and throw it in there. Ultimately, I say they should go for it.

I'll just put this highly relevant lecture right... here.

Trevor

How do you "combine" a laser in the way that pic depicts, light does not work like that...

But assuming it works I hope it opens a rift to like the elemental universe. Then I can live out my dream of harassing two of the games main characters

Man...Walternate will be here soon.  I have to hide before he ambers us all or sends the shapechangers.

Good luck with Armageddon all.

Precisely, which is why I hope it bankrupts them all so's they can't weaponise anything else.

Okay, so a bloke down your street wants to test a nuclear device in his backyard, knowing he could take out half the neighbourhood... and you with it.?  So, he should go with that, too?

It's like Uvah said, scientists forge ahead thinking about what they hope will happen, but never about the consequences of what might happen. 

Anything powerful enough to tear apart space-time and boil a vacuum should never be built, for any reason, much less placed in the hands of idiot geniuses.

Thought to consider. If these elemental particles destroyed each other all the time, without exception, then how do you explain the existence of the universe. Matter has a 0.1 % advantage over nothingness. Hence our very existence. Seems to me common sense went out the window...again. lol

Um, sense isn't very common, which is why these imbeciles are contemplating this scientific folly.

I'm all for scientific advancement, especially in the field of medicine and anything that improves our quality of life, but this venture is sheer madness and I would rather see the money spent on cancer research, SIDS research, finding ways to cue heart disease, etc.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think the idea is to get some kind of constructive interference  at the point where the lasers meet, and the picture is just not a geometrically-accurate image of the process. Instead, imagine all of the lasers aimed to form a cone, with the interesting stuff happening at the apex.

 

Relativity was just a theory, too, until we got GPS. You never know what applications a bit of research might have until you study it in detail.

So basically what you are saying, either we get a sonic screw driver or we get killed by those spider thingies from the move, "The Mist."...

Or a better mousetrap. There's always a chance of a better mousetrap.

Studying heart disease or ways to cure cancer is one thing, but devices that could tear the fabric of space is another.  The consequences of that could be far more devastating than the A-Bomb or any other weapon of mass destruction scientists saw fit to inflict on mankind.

Again, it's one thing to build a better mousetrap, but if that mousetrap has other environmental consequences, then it becomes a liability rather than useful.  So, when you point a device with enormous destructive potential into neighbouring space, chance are high that environmental consequences can/will ensue.

Its more than that. A rift in the continuum so close to the Earth will, not might but will, have devastating effects on the planet to the cost of some 7 billion lives lost. Scientists simply do not know enough about space/time to go mucking around with it. I'm all for the advancement of science but not at the cost of human life or any kind of life for that matter. What they're futzin' around with is called zero point energy. A vacuum is not empty by any means. This has been studied very thoroughly. A scintillating device had detected minute flashes of light inside a vacuum chamber. These flashes are the elemental particles destroying each other. Let them study such things inside one of these chambers or one built to contain the enormous energies needed to separate them. When the chamber and its surroundings are destroyed then perhaps they'll think twice about what they are doing. Something to think about. In the original Star Trek series it was said that you cannot warp out, as it were, close to a planet because the power generated by the warp engines could rip a hole in space, thus endangering the planet. This is because of the planet's mass and the way that mass warps space around it to create a gravity well. Remember the rubber sheet experiment? The more mass a planet has the deeper the well, the more the sheet is distorted to contain it. Einstein's equation E=MC squared.......mass and energy are equivalent, two manifestations of the same thing. The more energy created the more mass there is. Disrupt the space/time distortion around a planet, increasing the amount of warping and lord knows what will happen.