For all of those who have wanted to play God...

[Elven Doritos]

This looks like a good idea.

[Numinous]

Humans are stupid...

We're all gonna die...

But yes, I do want to play God...

[Ghost]

I've read this scenario in a few science fiction books before.

It's very, very cool that this is able to happen. Even if we can't observe that it actually happened, I still think it will be a definite footnote in history.

[Poseptune]

Eh Macgyver already did that with a toothpick, bubble gum, aluminum foil, and a microwave. :)

[SDragon]

so the scientists doing this are running on "if the project is successful"?

why oh why oh WHY can i hear some hillbilly yelling "hey MAW! if'n this werks...." about this project?

[Elven Doritos]

Dunno, unless there's a hillbilly dialect that Japanese scientists use.

[Numinous]

I just hope it doesn't work completely or works completely...  No half-assed splinching where we all experience agonising pain for thousands of years...

[Elven Doritos]

Nah, entropic consumption would probably rapidly consume everything in its path, man. We'd be dead in microseconds.

[SA]

Or some kind of obsence quantum fuckup and subsequent utter annihilation.

Utter Annihilation kinda sucks...

[Elven Doritos]

It's better than some alternatives.

Boy, do I want to be known as a member of the sentient race who were responsible for punching a hole through space-time!

[Elven Doritos]

Although....

Man, a weird idea just hit me.

We've always wondered where our *own* Big Bang "came from", so to speak. There are theories, yeah, but that's all.

What if somebody from another universe inhibited a micro-singularity like this one to create our own space-time? Wouldn't we then have an obligation to do the same?

If that were the case, then the question of our existence and the purpose of humanity in the universe is called into question...

Man, I'm thinking an offshoot philosophy thread is in order or something.

[SA]

Yeah, that very same idea hit me yesterday when I was reading about this in New Science.  My friend and I had a well-good romp coming up with Sci Fi plots and alternative UFO cults for this...

It's like the space continuum is the perpetual artificial reproduction of universes: when sentient life reaches sufficient advancement, it produces another universe, and so it begins again.

L. Ron Hubbard would have a friggin' field day.

[Elven Doritos]

But then the question becomes where the original singularity emerged from, unless it's an endless cycle that eventually loops back through the original space-time? An endless cycle...

But then, wouldn't that make us predestined to create the new reality? That would mean that space-time is predictable and repeats itself continuously... reincarnating all matter again and again. We could be living in a repetition of the same proto-matter cycle, for some unknown amount of time...

This is like a Star Trek plot gone wrong...

[SA]

Predestination is a nsaty notion, but, sadly, one I am inclined to accept.

I am reminded now of the ugly Eternal Return.

EDIT:

Alternatively, this might draw parallels with genetic engineering.  The idea of a Big Bang followed by a Big Crunch followed by a Big Bang etcetera has been floating around for a while now, and this New Universe idea is very much an example of humanity siezing Natural Process by the nutsack and throttling it into submission: rather than allow the standard course of expansion, contraction, reexpansion, we're taking control of things.  Similarly, genetic engineering involves grabbing hold of evolution and playing it by our own rules.

Interesting...

[Elven Doritos]

Meaning? Damned if we do, damned if we don't.