Simon Kestral Quotes in The Big Bang (2010)

Simon Kestral: You're in a 8-mile long circular tunnel, 300 feet below San Celeritas. And 27 hours from now 8 Magnet-Assembly storing 10 GigaJoules of energy, will guide two proton beams fired simultaneously in a semi-circular path towards each other, at 99.999% of the speed of light, and they'll collide right in there.

Ned Cruz: Whoa.

Simon Kestral: To recreate conditions of 3/8th of a second after The Big Bang. The beginning of the universe... 13 billion years ago. Questions? Preguntas?

Ned Cruz: 'What the fuck for', comes to mind.

Simon Kestral: 27 hours, I'm gonna find something that theoretically should exist but no one has ever seen.

Ned Cruz: Funny. This is exactly what I'm looking for.

Simon Kestral: You know why?

Ned Cruz: Yes, because I'm a private detective and I've been hired to.

Simon Kestral: Because I already know why we're here. I knew it the first time I dropped acid.

Ned Cruz: Really? When was the last time?

Simon Kestral: We are sentient beings, evolved in an infinite universe. An infinite extrapolation of our evolution is to become Gods ourselves. You dig?

Simon Kestral: If everything there is, from all the heavenly bodies in all the galaxy's still expanding universe, to you and me was one smaller than a single atom, where did all this mass and matter come from?

Ned Cruz: Don't tell me, the God particle.

Simon Kestral: Fucking A! At 7:00 a.m., tomorrow morning, with 5 billion dollars worth off-the-shelf technology, I'm gonna answer the greatest question of all time.

Ned Cruz: Why do men have nipples?

Simon Kestral: The reason we are here is to find out how we are here. What is the trick? What is the divine mechanism that gives form and substance to all things? Any other questions are waste of fucking time. This is the only worthwhile pursuit in the universe, bro.

Simon Kestral: Detach yourself, detective.

Simon Kestral: Dr. Niels Geck. PhD at MIT, age 13. Rogue scholar, age 16. Professor of Departement of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, age 20. Chief Physicist at the San Celeritas particle Collider. He's blessed with a neurological disorder. He sees words and numbers as shapes and colors. It's called synesthesia. It's like being born on acid. So he has very rich inner life. I envy him above all others.

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?

Simon Kestral: I think you two need to... go away. Do your business. Talk, fuck... whatever. By 7.00 a.m. tomorrow, I'm gonna be on stage... standing next to God... and looking right up his sleeve.

Simon Kestral: [before pushing the button] Let's see what we're made of.

[last lines]

Simon Kestral: Oh fuck!

[the Collider explodes]