Time and Place
This time and place
seem to pass so transiently
a tiny target. something so small. what if you are aiming at it all along?
Squirrels have the best tails in the entire animal kingdom.
Black Hole wormholes to other universes?
http://ow.ly/1yxR6
Really? Where are all the ‘white-holes’ shooting massive amounts of mass into our universe? Maybe black holes dont go anywhere. Maybe they all get bigger and bigger, and smash into each other until we get another big bang? Maybe?
LHC total waste
Ha. I knew it was a waste of money even if it ran. The Large Hadron Collider cost $10 BILLION and will never give the results they want:
Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?
08/09/2009 When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
The world’s largest scientific machine has cost $10 billion, has worked only nine days and has yet to smash an atom. The unique equipment in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel with cathedral-sized detectors deep beneath the Swiss-French border has been assembled by specialists in many countries, with 8,970 physicists eagerly awaiting the startup.
But despite the expense, thousands of physicists around the world, many of whom hope to conduct experiments here, insist that it will work and that it is crucial to mankind’s understanding of the universe.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, said Friday it would restart the collider in November at half power under pressure from scientists eager to conduct experiments to unlock secrets of the universe.
But spokesman James Gillies told The Associated Press they would have to shut down yet again next year to finish repairs so that the Large Hadron Collider can operate at full energy of 7 trillion electron volts _ seven times higher than any other machine in the world.
CERN has been working since late last year to repair the damage caused by a faulty electrical joint. The breakdown occurred nine days after the spectacular start up of the $10 billion machine last Sept. 10 when beams of subatomic particles were sent around the accelerator in opposite directions.
Fifty-three massive electrical magnets had to be cleaned and repaired after the failure. Tons of supercold liquid helium spilled out of the system, and a sooty residue had to be cleared from the tubes that are meant to be pristine, holding a vacuum in which subatomic particles can whiz around the tunnel at near the speed of light at temperatures colder than outer space.
Michio Kaku, a physics professor at City University of New York who is an outspoken critic of waste in big science projects, defends the CERN collider as a crucial investment.
“The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing,” Kaku said. “We’re exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.”
He said the biggest cause of the “bad accident” last year was “probably due to human error caused by rushing the project.”
“But I view it as a temporary black eye. We’ll get it up and running,” Kaku said.
CERN expects repairs and additional safety systems to cost about 40 million Swiss francs ($37 million) over the course of several years, covered by the 20-nation organization’s budget.
The collider emerged as the world’s largest after the U.S. canceled the Superconducting Super Collider being built in Texas in 1993. Congress pulled the plug after costs soared, and questions were raised about the value of the science it could produce.
Gillies says all 20 of CERN’s member nations have remained supportive and that four other countries _ Cyprus, Israel, Serbia and Turkey _ have asked to join. A fifth country _ Slovenia _ has expressed interest.
Japan, India, Russia and the U.S. are observer countries that have made sizable contributions to the CERN project.
CERN is now aiming to restart the machine in November with beams of subatomic particles initially running at 3.5 trillion electron volts, or TeV. That’s only half the level the machine was designed for, but it’s still 3 1/2 times higher than the second most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago. During last year’s brief startup phase, the CERN collider only operated at half the Fermilab level.
Even as the machine is being calibrated this winter, scientists will be able to conduct experiments, collecting data on the collisions of protons and lead ions in the accelerator.
They hope the higher energy will enable them to see particles so far undetected, such as the elusive Higgs boson, which in theory gives mass to other particles _ and objects and creatures _ in the universe.
Physicists have used smaller, room-temperature colliders for decades to study the atom. They once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of the atom’s nucleus, but the colliders showed that they are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles. And they still have other questions about antimatter, dark matter and particle mass they want to answer with CERN’s new collider.
They hope the fragments that come off the collisions will show on a tiny scale what happened one-trillionth of a second after the so-called Big Bang, which many scientists theorize was the massive explosion that formed the universe. The theory holds that the universe was rapidly cooling at that stage and matter was changing quickly.
Some skeptics have expressed fears the high-energy collision of protons could imperil the Earth by creating micro black holes _ subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.
CERN and leading physicists dismiss the fears and maintain the project is safe.
The collider’s teething problems are typical of complicated accelerators, but it has been especially frustrating to physicists from around the world, who already have been waiting for years to conduct their experiments on the machine.
“But the LHC is an example of an enormously complicated machine that is pushing the edge of accelerator technology, and it is not surprising that it has had some unanticipated problems,” Neal Lane, former President Bill Clinton’s science adviser and former director of the National Science Foundation.
If the collider can be started soon, it will produce valuable results, said Lane, now a a physicist and public policy professor at Rice University.
But, he added, “If there are many more surprises, further delays, failure to meet design specifications over the next few years, then the field of experimental particle physics, worldwide, could be set back for a decade or more. The stakes are very high!”
Gillies told the AP that CERN management decided at the beginning of the year that it would not try to repair all parts of the collider this year.
“Otherwise, we would never have had a beam before halfway through next year,” he said.
Gillies said CERN experts have examined every one of the 1,600 superconducting magnets and each of the 10,000 electrical splices as well as copper protection to carry away any spillover current to prevent damage to the magnets if they heat up as happened Sept. 19.
They decided some of the splices need to be repaired before the collider goes to full power, but that they can operate safely up to 5 TeV without further repairs now.
That has been set as the highest energy for the collider before its next shutdown for maintenance, probably in November 2010. Then the further repairs will be made so that the energy level can be ramped up.
Rolf Heuer, who has taken over as CERN’s director-general since the failure, said the collider has been studied very carefully and is much better understood than a year ago.
“We can look forward with confidence and excitement to a good run through the winter and into next year,” Heuer said.
Graviton? WTF An open letter to Particle Physicists
Dear Particle Physicists;
Can I use your theories on my day to day job? That would be awesome;
Client: “Josh we hired you to make this website, but some of the sections are missing?”
Josh: “Oh, lets see, what happened? Oh yeah, some invisible things that you can’t see or measure took the missing sections into another dimension.”
Client: “Excuse me?”
Josh: “Yeah. And I have nothing to prove it by. You can’t prove it, because they aren’t there. If you devise a way to see into these other made up universes, your sections are there..”
Essentially this is the bullshit being passed off with “gravitons” and the other made up crap that modern day physicists are theorizing. Higgs field? Really? Here’s a thought. What if the theory you are trying to plug holes up on is fundamentally wrong? What if you are over complicating something that is already so over complicated that you can get away with spending millions of dollars trying to prove the existence of things that admittedly don’t exist?
Try looking at the fundamental problems again. And take a step back. Is there REALLY a problem with the gravitational theory as Einstein proposed? Or is it the math itself that is wrong?
Please email me to discuss further.
Higgs Boson does not exist
I can’t believe we are spending millions of dollars to make a super collider to try and find a made up particle to plug a hole in a theory that is wrong.
Maybe instead of trying to pin our hopes of understanding the beginnings of the universe and how particles get mass we should make a new theory.
All particles have mass. Even photons. Its just too small to measure by us. Larger particles gain their mass when small ones coalesce and collide. Black hole anyone?
All this effort is only focusing on one part of the equation. E. They think if they have enough energy it will generate the mass they are looking for. The beginning of the universe was also under immense, unmeasurable pressure as well as heat. Leaving these out of the experiment render its results useless.
A decent link: Large Hadron Collider startup/
small
how narrow does the path need to get?
no, really?
how tiny does it have to be? the funnel ends.
we know this.
energy never stops.
Inside our Boxes
As I was walking my dog tonight I noticed some things. Everyone is closed off from each other now. Each house I passed had its own giant TV hanging on the wall with a few people seated in front of it, mesmerized by the glowing screen. The rains earlier in the day seemed to have driven everyone inside, as Cala and I saw no other people or dogs outside.
People used to be more social and neighborly. Now our interactions are all digital. I am the poster child for this.
What an interesting world we live in. Time passes and people get further away from each other. Thankfully there are still dogs and squirrels.
April 4, 1984
The past and the future meet again. Odd coincidences and strange numbers align. George Orwell’s 1984 has been on my netflix instant que for weeks, why then should I pick today to watch it, the same date that the story begins with.
Why does it take 21 days to make or break a habit? 21 grams is supposedly lost from the body on death; the weight of the soul? In the tarot, The Universe is card 21. All this only has signifigance because of a nick name derived from an opposite. 21 half of 42; The Answer. Again these numbers may only hold meaning for me, but there is just too much in my head to simply dismiss it all.
Time Coalesces All.
It all just feels too unlikely to be coincidence. What if you are meant to be someone? But you don’t yet know who?
“There is truth and there is untruth. To be in a minorty of one does not make you mad”
Universal Trust
I put my future in the hands of the universe. I have no idea what it has planned for me, but I do know its not what I have been doing. Tomorrow again holds the promise of unknown.
I am reminded of when I crashed my car 13 years ago. At the point where I realized I had lost control, I let go of the wheel, relaxed into my seat, and let the universe unfold before me with its own free will.
This I do again.
42 and 21 and both make sense
I asked the tarot first. It said 21. The Universe. No small irony there.
Then i asked the I-Ching. It said 42 – Increase. Wind and Thunder.
The idea of increasing is expressed in the fact that the strong lowest line of the upper trigram has sunk down and take its place under the lower trigram. This conception also expresses the fundamental idea on which the Book of Changes is based. To rule truly is to serve.
A sacrifice of the higher element that produces an increase of the lower is called an out-an-out increase: it indicates the spirit that alone has power to help the world.
Sacrifice on the part of those above for the increase of those below fills the people with a sense of joy and gratitude that is extremely valuable for the flowering of the commonwealth.
I used my iPhone I-Ching to get this hexagram. In my fathers book of the I Ching, this hexagram immediately follows P’i, standstill, which you may recall from the ink on my left arm. After watching Wall-E and seeing it end with turtles and them looking up into a tree, while the song says “come down to the ground” makes me eerily aware that this cannot all possibly be a cooincidence.
It’s time for change.
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Astronomy and Astrology
I’ve always been fascinated by both Astronomy and Astrology, and lately I’m convinced that there is a real connection between them. If the gravity of the moon can make the tides, think what the gravity of a black hole can do. I think that the alignment of the earth to the rest of the universe, specifically black hole locations has a bearing on the way that the human brain develops during its embryonic state. Thus the influence of these gravities from their locations during the time of your gestation causes subtle differences in the way your brain grows and results in the differences between the astrological signs.
I could be completely wrong, but it fits into my views on gravity, the universe and theology as well. During the year, the Earth changes position just enough to allow for different areas of the rest of the universe to effect us. The sun’s gravity would overwhelm the pull of stars and black holes on the opposite side of it, thus negating their influence.
Just a thought I’ve had for a while that I wanted to get out of my head.
Solar Maximum 2012
The next solar cycle, when the mangetic fields of the sun finish reversing is most likely going to take place in 2012. Coincidence? I bet it happens in December of 2012 and knocks out a lot of our modern technologies. Were the mayans aware of the solar cycles? I can’t imagine that they weren’t.
M theory / String Theory is close but WRONG
Watching a show on parallel universes right now. Talking about multiple levels of “parallel universes” and all that BS. Come on guys, its wrong. You are close. Our universe is a bubble. But its not one single bubble, its made of the infinite number that you try to put in the parallel universes. The “branes” are not 2 dimensional, but 3. Bubbles.
Everything at its smallest and biggest level is a sphere. Look at atoms and molecules. Look at the planets and stars.
Life, as we know it, is the coalesation of all our molecules held together with “energy” or “gravity”. One particle of your brain making a decision would NOT split off into a new parallel dimension, because ALL of your particles are being controlled by the energy that is holding them together. They are NOT independent and autonomous.
I think what bugs me the most about parallel universes is that its unnecessary and unprovable to explain the universe. Why add this extra layer of unprovable and improbableness to the explanation of the universe??
String Theory/M Theory has some things that I agree with. The vibration of membranes. Multiple membranes after the big bang, and the collision of all existing membranes causing the big bang. But I don’t think there are strings, only BUBBLES. You don’t need strings to explain things.
I think I’ll make up a “Level 5 parallel universe” – in it gravity is backwards, dogs and trees can talk and air is thick like water. When you start creating machines to do quantum experiments that by their very nature of being observed are changed, you are just making things up. Gravitons…extra dimensions. I have no doubt that if we let science keep making things up, and making up machines to observe their made up things, there will be some results. How can you know that your results are not just a by product of the machine itself? YOU CAN’T. It’s almost like some of this science has turned into politics and the scientists are just making things up to keep their jobs and spend money.
I have a video I shot to try and help explain this, but I need to edit it before posting.
