John Oliver: So, roughly speaking, what are the chances that the world is going to be destroyed? One-in-a-million? One-in-a-billion?Walter Wagner: Well, the best we can say right now is a one-in-two chance.John: 50-50?Walter: Yeah, 50-50. It's a chance, it's a 50-50 chance.John: You come back to this 50-50 thing, what is it Walter?
"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" -Stephen Hawking
After a long search spanning more than my entire lifetime (so far), the Higgs boson has finally been discovered at both detectors CMS and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” -Tennessee Williams
I'm always stoked to give you weekly recaps at Starts With A Bang, just in case there's anything you missed. We saw some fantastic posts this week, including two amazing contributions from Brian Koberlein and Amanda Yoho! Here's what we saw:
Farnsworth: "There is it. The edge of the Universe!"
Fry: "Far out. So there's an infinite number of parallel Universes?"
Farnsworth: "No, just the two."
Fry: "Oh, well, I'm sure that's enough."
Bender: "I'm sick of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me!" -Futurama
Our existence here in this Universe is something that we know is rare, special, beautiful, and full of wonder.