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This reads more like an advertisement than an article from popular science.Wheres the science.I like HP personally they have very good customer service,and My hp pavilion has been a pleasure to own.

I've used the hilti many times,and I never saw a six inch bit,but I bet they make them.Would be very expensive.usually people grab a self feeding drill that looks like a coring tool when the holes get that size.there are companies out there that do that and not much else.I have used a 3 inch diam. bit myself,and have seen 4 foot long bits.If your not a man when you pick up one of these monsters you will be by the end of the day.It is amazing though what you can put a hole through.

The problem with this science is the reproduction of effects.I have read several books on the subject,and they all point in that direction.That these effects can not be proven to exist because they are not repeatable,and predictable.This article seems to focus on ghost,and mentions a couple other extra sensory perceptions,but the world of the unexplained is vast,and overwhelming to say the least.I personaly have had many precognitive dreams,and know that these are real.So for me its not a question of is it possible,but of how much of what I hear is true,or not.Of course there is no posible way to know this anymore than there is a way to prove my experiences really happened to you.It would be interesting to hear any actual findings issued by the established authority on the subject.The problem I have with their methods is,it is basicaly statistics,and they say an effect is proven,or not because it sits outside of the curve that would be produced by using random data.My trouble is difining random.Is there really such a thing.Because it seems to me everything is caused,or effected by something else in one way or the other plus you are in most cases dealing with people,so is that really random if there is no other effect present.Anyway it would be interesting to hear of any other scientific methods out there.Perhaps like the studies done on the visible energy fields of all living things(even plants).

I'm curious why the writer was so worried about justification for the money spent.Which by the way didn't just vanish into some mysterious other dimension.It was paid to workers,and manufactuers ect.It would have been nice to have heard more about this machine,and how all its parts work together.Of course he does talk about some of the good things the machine may bring about.We don't know what this machines value realy is,but It does give us posibilities that would have been uncomprehendable to the giants from are past that we owe our feeble understandings of the universe to.It may only add one small new fact to our meager stock of knowledge,but it may be a new understanding of spacetime for example.What value would you place on unlimited power,or the ability to not only leave our little dirt ball(earth),but to reach for the very stars we wish to understand.Oh on a earlier comment mass,and energy are the same things in a different form so the big bang could be seen as enough energy to create all the mass in the universe.so you don't have to try to imagine everything there is coming from a singularity,but it is interesting to consider all this energy(a massive amount odviously)has no mass,and perhaps no other dimensional quantities as we think of them(tall,wide,long,and maybe even time),but if you look at the amount of energy released from the small amount of mass in an atomic bomb its pretty much impossible to fathom the energy that would be created by converting all known mass back into energy.Anyway back to the collider,we don't know what value this thing has for sure,but the possibillities,well they are unlimitted.