According to the Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, the world's biggest instrument - a $9 billion atom-smasher that will recreate conditions not seen since a split second after the big bang 14 billion years ago - will be switched on this Wednesday.
Built 100 metres below the Swiss countryside by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the collider will fire two beams of particles in opposite directions around a 27-kilometre ring at almost the speed of light. When the beams collide head on, they will create fireballs and showers of subatomic debris never witnessed before.
It has been heralded as a monumental creation that will reveal the fundamental nature of the universe, but also as a doomsday machine that could destroy the planet. A physicist from the University of Sydney, Kevin Varvell, said the impacts could produce man-made mini black holes, reveal that the universe has extra dimensions that are normally curled up, and throw light on the nature of the mysterious dark matter which makes up most of the cosmos.
The scientists in the article said they have designed and built the machine on the "current ideas and theories" about the creation of the universe and they also predict the "results the machine should have." They don't even bloody know!!
Now my question is this, once upon a time these 'so-called' scientists also 'knew' that the world was flat! So are we really willing to trust them now when they have decided to play God?
I don't mind if they play around with stupid ideas and continue trying to send doughnuts into space to feed the alien police, but they said that their machine may create mini black holes here on earth, and they still don't know what a black hole actually is or why it expands!
Of course the fact that we, the human race, might have just possibly built the ultimate doomsday device doesn't even get front page news or recognintion. Instead it's covered with photos of Britney, with a half shaven head, holding her MTV awards.
And still like the sheep we are, we keep buying these magazines because what happens in the life of Britney apparently is more important than the survival of our planet....
Built 100 metres below the Swiss countryside by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the collider will fire two beams of particles in opposite directions around a 27-kilometre ring at almost the speed of light. When the beams collide head on, they will create fireballs and showers of subatomic debris never witnessed before.
It has been heralded as a monumental creation that will reveal the fundamental nature of the universe, but also as a doomsday machine that could destroy the planet. A physicist from the University of Sydney, Kevin Varvell, said the impacts could produce man-made mini black holes, reveal that the universe has extra dimensions that are normally curled up, and throw light on the nature of the mysterious dark matter which makes up most of the cosmos.
The scientists in the article said they have designed and built the machine on the "current ideas and theories" about the creation of the universe and they also predict the "results the machine should have." They don't even bloody know!!
Now my question is this, once upon a time these 'so-called' scientists also 'knew' that the world was flat! So are we really willing to trust them now when they have decided to play God?
I don't mind if they play around with stupid ideas and continue trying to send doughnuts into space to feed the alien police, but they said that their machine may create mini black holes here on earth, and they still don't know what a black hole actually is or why it expands!
Of course the fact that we, the human race, might have just possibly built the ultimate doomsday device doesn't even get front page news or recognintion. Instead it's covered with photos of Britney, with a half shaven head, holding her MTV awards.
And still like the sheep we are, we keep buying these magazines because what happens in the life of Britney apparently is more important than the survival of our planet....
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