> > > ...and make way for the latest human race-obliterating scientific advance: the Big Bang replicating nuclear accelerator!
> >
> > Now, I may be missing something (and if I am, by all means, fill me in), but what is the point of this? Is this just science for its own sake, or is there an application I just don't see?

I think the point is mostly to look at the way the matter condenses out of energy, and also to test the so-called "unified field" theories (The idea that at *reall* high energy levels the four forces (strong & weak nuclear, gravity, and electromagnitism) are actually facets of the same, er, "uberforce". :-)

> > And, by the way, my hat is off to the guy who named "strange matter." Science with humour value! :-}

Agreed. Of course, "quark" is silly enough. (Finally got tired of naming things with meaning when they realized that they never really knew what things were, I guess.)

> to FTL travel (how DID star trek get that right???) . .so if you could harness that much power and use it to make antimatter. . .

They also said "black star" a couple years before the term black hole was coined.

> i would prefer it, however, if they avoided turning the earth into a singularity, thank you very much.

Why?? Who knows where we might pop out! (Imagines tidal effects of sharp gravity ripping everything apart) On second thought, never mind.