Greetings friends, today as many of you know was a bit make or break for the universe as we know it. As a lot of the sensationalist media have been reporting that the CERN project could indeed end the world...well as per usual they were as wrong as Nostradamus. Not to say that there isn't a risk involved, there is a chance a black hole could be formed...a 1 in 50 million chance, and I'm willing to take those odds that it won't happen, but i digress. The first small scale test was a complete success and watching CNN with baited breath i saw what all the fuss was about, a split second flash of light. This may not seem like much, but it proves the machine works. After 14 years in development and 10 million dollars in funding, it actually works! I for one cannot wait for the passing months as more and more work takes place in the Geneva cellar...i hear Joseph Fritzl was interested in this property. This does throw up an important question for me..if this research does bear the fruit that it is believed too, what will happen to religion? will doctrines have to be re-written, etc? I'd be interested to get your Anglican thoughts on this Mark.
In other news, the other day i took a brave step...even tho i cannot fully afford it, i stopped my penny pinching and bought the camera I've been wanting for ages. Money well spent, I'm thoroughly enjoying it! hurrah for me, and hurrah for Canon.
Take a moment if you will to look at some of my snaps
www.flickr.com/photos/benkinder
*End Transmission*
P.s. Higgs boson, here we come.
Permission to go back to work, Mr Chairman...
15 years ago
2 comments:
I was quite confused as to how the paper's thought yesterday would mark the end of the world, considering they aren't even colliding anything yet...
so there is still time to make jokes about things colliding in a french tunnel, probably funded by UK tax payers... how ironic it would have been if CERN had obtained merc sponsorship
As for the religious applications, there are two positions people of faith are likely to take.
1) deny it
2) welcome the fact that we were right all along about the universe having a beginning -don't forget until the 70s scientists put their trust in the static universe model-
As I see it, CERN doesn't really have any immediate religious applications, and neither does it attempt to answer the big question, what caused the big bang... and before you fob me off with string theory, what caused that, and the multi-verse and energy for that matter -we can assume Higgs caused the matter-
I could go on for all eternity with the 'but why' questions, its why the cosmological argument is sound. There needs to be an absolute at the start, Christians call that absolute God, therefore God exists.
see that, right there, just then, that was me pwning Dawkins
haha yeah but dawkins is a fool, and i wouldnt dare come at you with string theory mark, im much too wrapped up in my memes for that
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