My kids used to watch a video about a robot named Colby. Colby is hanging out with a bunch of kids in a backyard and everyone is singing and playing and having a good time. Suddenly a bully enters the scene and Colby starts saying in a singsong way, "Intruder! Intruder! We have an intruder!" That is sort of how I felt as I was reading about the Large Hadron Collider. Read on.
"After 14 years of preparation, a new scientific wonder of the world opened for business Wednesday with the official startup of Europe's Large Hadron Collider.
The $10 billion particle accelerator is the biggest, most expensive science machine on earth, designed to probe mysteries ranging from dark matter and missing antimatter to the existence of extra, unseen dimensions in space."
"It’s a fantastic moment," Lyn Evans, the project leader for the Large Hadron Collider, said afterward. "We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe.”
So what are we talking about here? Let's see if I can explain. Atoms are composed of electons, protons and neutrons, plus other particles. Protons, neutrons and the other particles are built up from fundamental constituents called quarks. Still with me? The particles built up from quarks are classified as hadrons. The LHC or Large Hadron Collider smashes hadrons together. The scientists believe (or at least have invested years of time and large amounts of money into it) that if they can smash hadrons together they can produce a "big bang" that will help them understand the origin of the world.
"So what will come out of those tiny, trillion-degree smash-ups? The LHC will look for exotic high-energy particles that supposedly came into existence just after the big bang---for example, the Higgs boson (which is thought to give other particles their mass) or supersymmetric particles (which may account for much of the universe's dark matter)."
Opponents of the project fear that the collider could actually cause microscopic black holes that would eventually gobble up the planet. Could be true science, could be science fiction. I have no idea. I guess I am more consumed by what they are trying to prove. Are they trying to prove that somehow "BOOM!", it just happened and God doesn't exist? Or deep down inside are they actually looking for a Creator? Will they find Him?
My prediction is this. They will actually see something so amazing that many of them will believe that the only explanation is a Creator OR that their whole mission will fail because God has chosen to protect the mystery.
For those who camp with the black whole theorists, take heart: the actual subatomic collisions aren't due to begin until next month. You have at least a month to get everything done you always wanted to do or as I see it, I am that much closer to being in the arms of Jesus, the One whom John, chapter 1 says this about:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made: without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
(Tan letters are quotes from MSN article.)
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all i had running through my mind was "we are the double diagnostic discs...specially made to [this is where i start making up the words] format things like this..."
:)
OH i remember! "Specially made for cases such as this!!" haha.
I had to comment about the colby part-we totally watched those movies too and I konw exactly what you are talking about!
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