these are pictures from the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider.
The LHC has been the source of major buzz in the scientific community for the past few years.
What is it?
It's a particle accelerator.
In fact, it's the biggest and most powerful ever made.
What does it do?
It smashes itsy-bitsy pieces of matter together at ridiculous speeds.
As it begins operation in May, particle physicists hope that it will reveal the existence of the theoretical Higgs Boson particle, which is supposed to provide the identity of mass.
Think about that.
What is mass?
most people define it as a measurement of weight, which technically is incorrect; weight is a measure of gravity's pull on mass.
Mass is essentially how much stuff you have.
well, what is that stuff, and how come we can measure it?
exactly.
we have literally thousands of scientists working on these types of questions.
the LHC might also answer many a question about gravity... which is one of those things that most people don't even think about.
look at it another way:
Scientists know that Physics is wrong.
This May, they might actually find out what is wrong with it.
This is big news.
How big?
The LHC occupies a circular tunnel roughly 16 and a half miles long, in Geneva, straddling the border between France and Switzerland.
At regular intervals, there are massive detector units (that big red thing in the second picture) that see what's going on inside that blue pipe.
This gigantic machine has cost roughly 3 Billion dollars.
No where online could i find a number of how much energy it will consume.
However, i do know that it uses a multitude of superconducting magnets- requiring near-absolute zero temperatures.
And the energy required to keep just that is enormous.
Now, the LHC presents the scientific community with the ability to do things that were previously impossible.
As such, we really have no idea what will happen the moment it gets activated.
Among the possibilities for disaster include the creation of miniature black holes that could devour our planet, and the production of Strangelets that could consume our earth.
To break that down, we (yes, the US chipped in) paid 3 billion dollars for a machine that saps enormous swaths of energy, and could potentially destroy our existence.
What we stand to gain is an improved understanding of how the universe works.
AKA, nothing.
Seriously, this stuff makes me sick.
The scientific community is insanely giddy over this thing.
And after we figure out about the Higgs particle, it will be close to worthless.
And i guarantee you, we have nothing to gain from learning what mass is.
Like, there's nothing you can do with it.
"oh, we know that there's a particle that makes matter have mass."
And like, after our society goes the way of the Roman Empire, NO ONE WILL CARE.
BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO ONE LEFT TO CARE.
people, there are serious, pressing matters in the world.
the ENERGY CRISIS.
GLOBAL WARMING.
THE GREAT COMMISSION.
The scientific community once again presents itself as hypocrites.
These people are the ones pushing the hardest about global warming, and responsible economics, and free trade, and they're the ones obliterating resources for useless gains.
You'd think they'd spend their money on pressing matters.
You'd think they wouldn't want to contribute to global warming and energy dependence.
But instead, they've chosen to ignore their own ethics and ideals in favor of this big particle accelerator.
Why do we still use 100-year-old light bulb technology?
Why aren't we all using Induction stoves?
And seriously, WHY ARE WE STILL BUYING OIL FROM OUR POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC ENEMIES?
Maybe if people spent as much money solving important problems, there wouldn't be as many problems left to solve.
it's insane.
it's like, everyone in Western Society drank the cool-aid.
Isaiah 65 states:
"The Lord says,
'I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help.
I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me.
I said, 'Here I am, here I am!' to a nation that did not call on me name.
All day long i opened my arms to a rebellious people.
But they follow their own evil paths and their own crooked schemes.'" [NLT]
God wants everyone to run to him; to realize the dumbness of their routine lives, shape up, and start living for something.
As it stands, popular belief, especially in hard-left New England, is about as ready to do that as they are to admit that the LHC isn't worth its pricetag or one-and-counting fatality rate.
And that's why we need to show them what it's like to let go of all that and run to our savior.
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