July 5th 2008

Does all end with the

Hadron Collider at

FULL SPEED ???

A number of people on this planet are worried about the Hadron Collider to be switched on in August, 2008. Capable (some think) of destroying this planet ??? Well?

If it ain't one thing, it's another: man-made/cyclical warming, man-made/cyclical cooling! (COOLING was very in vogue back in the late 1950's, early 1960's...we were all going to FREEZE over soon). Then there is more garbage than the planet can survive with! (Go see WALL-E. No, on second thought, don't! Lousy environmental 'toon). However, this Collider business is probably close to the front of the line of 'one more of those things to worry over'!

Actually, the 'worriers' can back off a bit. It'll take up to three months for the giant collider to reach full ethreal steam. (Click on above photo to get a better idea of the enormous circular area the Collider stretches underground) By then it will either doom the magnetic field of Earth, create black holes that will consume us all, or simply blow up part of their buildings. Can there be a mishap? The Collider does create unstable things. Physics genius Stephen Hawking made a comment that if it really does create a black hole, at best the hole should just immediately up and vanish. But is the thought that a 1 in 80 million chance of something drastically going wrong (as some scientist has suggested) sufficient to ease the minds of the over-worried when you ponder the winner of a lottery with odds even higher?

But perhaps one of the most amazing discoveries that is hoped to be found is something called 

"super-symmetry." 

Super-symmetry is this: when we see an object in the mirror (which according to this experiment is in truth our daily reality) there is the actual object, the real object itself being reflected. The collider hopes to uncover this other dimension that reveals the true object. Now if that ain't scary, I don't know what is! "Hey Fred. You're not really...real! But maybe the collider will show us the REAL Fred!"

While in high-school (late 1950's), Russia was about to ignite a up-to-then unheard of 100+ megaton nuclear bomb as a test. Everyone worried that it would ignite the atmosphere and be the end of us all. Even tho there are lawyers trying to stop the present day Collider, and there are demonstrations happening and planned, it likely will be a 'GO!' for August. Sort of the same thing back in those 100+ megaton days. No lawyers then, but demonstrations. The bomb went off, and the atmosphere remained. However, we all worried again, this time more than a little when the large radiation cloud moved over Chicago. I'm sure there were prayer groups in Churches asking for weather intervention so that it wouldn't rain. It didn't!

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