This shit is getting crazy. There is no reason we should have built this right now. We don't know what the fuck it is going to do. Even if nothing happens, the practical uses of the information discovered won't be applicable for at least 50 years.

This isn't so much about the Collider as it is about the things I've been noticing around me. It just seems like so many bad things are happening all at once and a lot of them have kind of been prophesized...

We're getting closer to 12/21/12.

The housing collapse still has the potential to absolutely destroy the world economy.

Bird flu is still lurking in the shadows.

I saw this documentary the other day that some saint several hundred years ago made a list of the future popes. There was a list of 112 of them and since it was written we're currently at 111.

Large Hadron Collider is already powered on and will reach full power halfway through October.

Russia is asserting itself very aggressively once again. They're one of the only countries with the political and military power to challenge us. With the way everything is going, a nuke could easily be deployed.

This presidential election seems to be epic. My memory of elections is fairly limited, but it really seems like we're at a turning point in American history. I'm sure there were other times when politics was very heated, like 1860, but this is the biggest contest in recent history.

There are other things I've been pondering all day but I can't remember them right now. It just seems like a scary time to be alive right now because there is SO MUCH uncertainty with what will happen in the near future. It's also been much easier for me to draw parallels to the Bible lately and I am NOT a religious person AT ALL. But if you simply look at the lessons that the Bible tries to teach and not take it literally, we're starting to go against that shit.

The biggest thing I can think of right now is we're picking the apple off the tree of knowledge with this LHC thing. Hell, the damned thing we're even trying to discover is the Higgs Boson (God Particle). They even refer to it as the fucking God Particle. Part of me thinks that the price for discovering this Higgs Boson (Knowledge) could possibly be the destruction of Earth (Banishment from the Garden). There's a chance that nothing bad will happen at all, but is the price we're willing to pay for being wrong really worth it? I don't know.

/blog

9/9/2008 2:08:44 PM

calm thyself

9/9/2008 2:10:35 PM

You might want to try not being stoned.

9/9/2008 2:11:07 PM

I'm not usually an anxious person or a huge worrier. But damn if I can't see some of the writing on the wall.

9/9/2008 2:11:18 PM

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"Higgs Boson (God Particle)"

actually its the god damn particle because it is so difficult to find

9/9/2008 2:11:27 PM

wuss

9/9/2008 2:12:09 PM

Actually it's the God Particle because it's supposedly the particle that holds the entire universe together.

9/9/2008 2:12:29 PM

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"Large Hardon Collider"

9/9/2008 2:15:07 PM

^^That's some stupid fuckin' shit right there.

They're hoping to find the particle that gives other particles mass, the Higgs-Boson particles.

9/9/2008 4:13:13 PM

Look here Beardouche, I know what the fuck it is. And when I say "holds the entire universe together", don't you think I could possibly mean, "the particle that gives every other particle mass and therefore gravity, which in turn holds the entire universe together?" Or are you just that big of a pretentious douchebag?

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9/9/2008 4:15:24 PM

this thread has idiotic douchebag written all over whoever made it.. so i think you fail by default

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM. Reason : asdf]

9/9/2008 4:16:53 PM

I think he's cranky because he's scared

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9/9/2008 4:18:45 PM

You brought God into the equation and then you started calling me stupid? I wasn't look for the Southern Baptist explanation.


"God Particle"... ohhhh

9/9/2008 4:20:30 PM

lol i really hope you're trolling

9/9/2008 4:21:07 PM

I think douchebag has just baout been overused :-/

i'm switching to dildo

9/9/2008 4:25:55 PM

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9/9/2008 4:29:16 PM

^^^^

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"I am NOT a religious person AT ALL."

Good try though. I wasn't the one that named the thing, but that's how powerful they believe it to be.

[Edited on September 9, 2008 at 4:29 PM. Reason : ^]

9/9/2008 4:29:34 PM

everyone thinks the world is gonna end because of some insignificant stuff like this

we were supposed to all die in year 2000 and then 2001 because 2000 wasn't really the new millennium

unless i die in a car wreck i'm pretty sure i'll live quite a while

9/9/2008 4:30:36 PM

as powerful as fiction

9/9/2008 4:30:47 PM

Look, if something goes massively wrong with the LHC, it'll happen so fast you won't notice it. So if you're worried, get right with Jesus if that's your thing, other than that, don't worry.


As far as the Revelations deal, 60 years ago we were emerging from the great depression, locked in an epic war between the largest and arguably best trained army in the world, supporting a genocidal dictator in one hemisphere and fighting a fanatical army backed by one of the worlds most powerful navies in the other hemisphere.

This ain't shit. The biggest election in modern history? Hardly. In 2000, the election had to be taken to the supreme court and was handed to the candidate with fewer popular votes. Russia overran a tiny nation with a tiny military that was right next door. It doesn't have the power to project force far beyond its borders unless it goes nuclear and I doubt even Putin wants that. China is the same way.

Go burn one man.

9/9/2008 4:52:37 PM

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" The housing collapse still has the potential to absolutely destroy the world economy."

We've had depressions before, and the US survived.

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"Bird flu is still lurking in the shadows."

This was probably overblown by the media. They were all over this in 2004, just over the *possibility* that it *might* transfer to humans and cause a massive plague. This is nothing compared to the Black Death in the 1200s.

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"I saw this documentary the other day that some saint several hundred years ago made a list of the future popes. There was a list of 112 of them and since it was written we're currently at 111. "

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"We're getting closer to 12/21/12."

Keep in mind that there have been many doomsday prophecies in the past 10 years. Nostradamus seemed to think something huge would happen in July, 1999, and it was a pretty boring month. Jesus was supposed to come back at the beginning of the millennium. For some reason, we thought we had figured out God's timeline. Plus, there was Y2K, and then John Titor predicted that the USA would be in a state of Civil War by 2008 that had been building since 2004, followed by a nuclear apocalypse in 2015.

Oh, and I thought I read somewhere that the dead sea scrolls predicted some sort of catastrophic event in 2000.

12/21/12 is kinda freaky... There's a lot that we can worry about if we want. Go look at this website if you want to be inundated with end of the world theories.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl20.htm

9/9/2008 5:57:39 PM

this kind of stuff is pretty scary to me. I hope it can be controlled.

9/10/2008 10:57:22 AM

9/11/2008 3:00:06 AM

jesus tapdancing christ

the lhc will not end the world

9/11/2008 6:55:41 AM

people are always afraid of stuff they don't understand. but don't call it

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"the Higgs-Boson particle"

it is called the Higgs boson. a boson is a type of particle, not someone who co-discovered the particle in question.

9/11/2008 10:11:16 AM

Bird flu is overrated. My wife had it when she lived in Japan.

9/11/2008 10:20:37 AM

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/1109742531/cern-large-hadron-collider

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"Ten years ago, scientists were able to discover the Higgs Boson particle and help make sense of the our universe using the Large Hadron Collider. They did it again in 2018, unlocking new insights on protons. Now, with a new host of questions, they plan to restart the particle accelerator this month to possibly better understand cosmic unknowns like dark matter. "This is a particle that has answered some questions for us and given many others," Dr. Sarah Demers, a physics professor at Yale University, tells NPR. The Higgs Boson particle was first observed when scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, spun and crashed particles together near the speed of light. They did that by using the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider. Since 1964, physicists theorized this particle existed, but it took nearly 50 years to find evidence. Scientists believe the Higgs field was formed a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang and without it, stars, planets and life would not have emerged. The evidence of the Higgs Boson's existence was a major milestone in fundamental physics, and Dr. François Englert and Dr. Peter Higgs won a Nobel Prize in physics. Despite the scientific achievement, the work in understanding how the universe operates is far from over. The collider finished a second experimental run in 2018 that gave new insights into the structures of protons and how the Higgs Boson decays. And after more than three years of maintenance and upgrades, the collider will launch again on Tuesday – this time tripling the data, maintaining intense beams for longer and generally enabling more studies. "There has to be more out there because we can't explain so many of the things that are around us," said Demers, who is also at CERN working on the third run. "There's something really big missing, and by really big, we're talking about 96 percent of the universe really big." What Demers is referring to is dark matter, which is invisible matter believed to exist from observations of the cosmos, and dark energy, which fuels the accelerating expansion of the universe. She hopes that the upcoming run will produce insight into the elusive but overwhelming bulk of our cosmos. In a news release, CERN wrote, "Finding the answers to these and other intriguing questions will not only further our understanding of the universe at the smallest scales but may also help unlock some of the biggest mysteries of the universe as a whole, such as how it came to be the way it is and what its ultimate fate might be." The third run is expected to go on for the next four years, and scientists are already starting to work on Run 4, scheduled to begin in 2030."

7/5/2022 12:12:43 PM

I ain't afraid of no [Large Hadron Collider]!

7/5/2022 1:00:16 PM

You might want to try not being stoned

7/5/2022 1:11:28 PM

I also prophesize things when I am high on drugs

7/5/2022 10:59:59 PM