Niels Geck Quotes in The Big Bang (2010)

Niels Geck: There's just no explaining for, how this universe acquired mass. There's no explanation at all for how, we're here in a physical sense. Unless, unless there is some special, mysterious particle that actually gives mass to... well, everything. In a sense, such a particle must exist, but we've never seen it. It's like love. We know it exists. We can feel it, but we've never seen it.

Ned Cruz: So, huh... what happens tomorrow?

Niels Geck: Well, we'll recreate the conditions that existed one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Protons will head toward collisions at nearly the speed of light. And quarks and gluons will release enough energy to create the Higgs Boson particle, the God particle. It's unstable, it's fragile. And it will last for less than a one-millionth, of a billionth, of a billionth of a second... before it decays. But we've seen it for the first time in history.

Simon Kestral: Questions?

Ned Cruz: Yeah. The woman who's serving us, she's Hindu, she's dressed in white, and she's mourning. Why?

Ned Cruz: So... what's the worst that can happen... with a couple of billion worth of off-the-shelf technology, brought it together by imperfect human beings HO here in Mexico?

Niels Geck: A black hole.

Ned Cruz: What was that?

Niels Geck: A black hole. Theoretically, collisions with this much energy, could create a black hole that could swallow the earth. Or... or create strangements that could initiate runaway fusion and turn the planet into a shrunken lump of strange matter.

Ned Cruz: We've got nothing to worry about.

Ned Cruz: So... what do you think, is gonna happen at 7.00 a.m. tomorrow?

Niels Geck: There are hidden variables, so it's difficult to predict the outcome. But... I think, one way or another, at 7 a.m. tomorrow, Simon Kestral will be close to God.