You are probably like me and have been so enamored by the democratic and republican carnivals that you overlooked what’s going on in Geneva, Switzerland. Manteca showed us a cartoon yesterday of the world’s largest particle collider. It's clear his little joke revealed his total lack of understanding in the importance of this remarkable machine. This device raised the bar as far as one could imagine when it comes to the old expression “big boys like expensive and big toys”. I’ve read they have been working on this thing since 1984 and it’s got a price tag of ten billion dollars. Not too shabby. Unlike some toy, however, that will end up unused some day in the back of a closet, this device is going to change life as we know it. The premise is really quite simple actually. If the collider proves the existence of new particles, it could test the dominant physics hypothesis of "string theory," which seeks to reconcile quantum mechanics and gravity in an all-encompassing formula that has eluded all scientists since Albert Einstein. And to quote Dr. Earnst Von Gist, "Ich hätte es nie geglaubt". So, naturally, you can see it will change everything you’ve ever believed in; everything that is, or was, or will be. For the first time we will know for certain if the light in the refrigerator really goes off when the door is closed. It’s also been said it will prove the existence of God. This information is of great interest to me since I thought I met Him in 1972, but then I could have been wrong all these years. A few zillion collided quantum particles should do the trick though. Ain’t science grand ?
Phynerk
