Wednesday, July 9, 2008

LHC


The Large Hadron Collider is set to come online soon. There are pundits who are concerned about mini black holes and the such; distruction of the world stuff. But what a way to go! How many people can say their world was wiped out by a black hole? (none I guess since if they were wiped out they could not talk about it--that's besides the point)

I am not that excited about the Higgs, Dark Energy, etc. that we may find but that which we may not find. I want more questions, more problems, things to keep physicists and mathematicians going for a long time. Of course the discovery of Higgs, etc. would be great but these are objects we name to model what we experience; and there is so much more.

We are an animal, on a small planet, orbiting a medium sun, on the edge of a medium galaxy, slowly rotating and traveling through the vast universe. There is so much more.

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  2. When does LHA come online?

    BTW, Esh said that there was something on the news that a reporter had mis-spelled it to "Large Hardon Accelerator".

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