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The Large Hadron Collider could unlock the secrets of genesis
by Michio Kaku
Champagne bottles were popped Tuesday in Geneva where the largest science machine ever built finally began to smash subatomic particles together. After 16 years—and an accident that crippled the machine a year and a half ago—the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed two beams of protons at the astounding energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece. This act produced temperatures not seen since the Big Bang occurred 13.7 billions years ago.
The LHC is colossal. It is a gigantic doughnut, 17 miles in circumference, in which two beams of protons will eventually create energies of 14 trillion electron volts. Yet by nature’s standards the LHC is a pea shooter. For billions of years the earth has been bathed in cosmic rays much more powerful than those created by the LHC.
Despite this great achievement, European taxpayers are asking if this 10 billion euro machine is a waste of money, particularly given the current financial crisis. These skeptics would do well to remember that the LHC could help us understand not only the instant of genesis, but will help unify the four fundamental forces that rule the universe. Each time one of these forces was deciphered it changed the course of human history.
When Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theory of the first force—gravity—in the 17th century, he created the mechanics that laid the groundwork for steam engines and the Industrial Revolution. The Machine Age unleashed humanity from the bondage of subsistence farming, lifting untold numbers from grinding poverty.
When Thomas Edison, James C. Maxwell and Michael Faraday helped to decipher and harness the second force—electromagnetism—it eventually gave us TV, radio, radar, computers and the Internet.
When Albert Einstein wrote down E=mc2, it helped to unlock the secret of the two nuclear forces (weak and strong), which unraveled the secret of the stars and unleashed nuclear power.
Today the LHC may have the potential to explain the origin of all four fundamental forces—gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. Physicists believe that at the beginning of time there was a single superforce which unified these fundamental forces. Finding it could be the crowning achievement in the history of science, ending 2,000 years of speculation since the Greeks first wondered what the world is made of. It could answer some of the deepest questions facing us, such as: What happened before the Big Bang? Are there parallel universes? Is time travel possible? And are there other dimensions?
In addition to helping us unlock the mysteries of the universe, the LHC may also create a new scientific elite. These scientists will likely spearhead new industries, creating jobs and perhaps significant wealth in Europe.
It’s sobering to remember that this could have happened in the U.S. Back in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan pushed to create a Superconducting Supercollider just outside Dallas, Texas. This machine would have been three times larger than the LHC and would have maintained U.S. leadership in advanced science for at least a generation. Congress allotted $1 billion to dig the hole for the Supercollider. Then it got cold feet and cancelled the plans in 1993, spending another $1 billion to fill up the hole. U.S. high-energy physics was set back an entire generation and has never recovered. So today the Europeans can brag about being the world’s leader in advanced physics.
Remember that because of World War II, the cream of European science, perhaps no more than a few hundred people, fled Europe for America. They unleashed the greatest explosion in science the world has ever seen. These Europeans trained new generations of American scientists, people that went on to create radar, microwaves, nuclear power, computers, the Internet, the laser and the space program. They created a scientific establishment that is the envy of the world, a source of profound wealth, and a magnet for young scientists world-wide. U.S. technological superiority and all the high-tech wonders of today can, in some sense, be traced back to this exodus. But such leadership is not a given.
I extend my congratulations to the Europeans; the LHC is their well-earned prize. I only hope that U.S. policy makers are paying close attention to Geneva.
Cassini photos of Saturn from NASA archive
There is no clock; “time” is an illusion
• Time has no indivisible unit.
• There is no “now,” only sequences of events.
Peter Lynds
Time, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Indeterminacy, Discontinuity, Relativity, Cosmology, Imaginary Time, Chronons, Zeno’s Paradoxes.
It is postulated there is not a precise static instant in time underlying a dynamical physical process at which the relative position of a body in relative motion or a specific physical magnitude would theoretically be precisely determined. It is concluded it is exactly because of this that time (relative interval as indicated by a clock) and the continuity of a physical process is possible, with there being a necessary trade off of all precisely determined physical values at a time, for their continuity through time. This explanation is also shown to be the correct solution to the motion and infinity paradoxes, excluding the Stadium, originally
conceived by the ancient Greek mathematician Zeno of Elea. Quantum Cosmology, Imaginary Time and Chronons are also then discussed, with the latter two appearing to be superseded on a theoretical basis.
Peter Lynds___Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity
Ground-breaking work in understanding of time
Peter Lynds Homepage
The Ecological Society of America
Mission
Global Green USA is a national environmental organization addressing three of the greatest challenges facing humanity:
Stemming global climate change by creating green buildings and cities.
Eliminating weapons of mass destruction that threaten lives and the environment.
Providing clean, safe drinking water for the 2.4 billion people who lack access to clean water.
Vision
President Gorbachev founded the organization in order to create a new approach to solving the worldfs most pressing environmental challenges by reconnecting humanity to the environment.
Results
Global Greenfs unique approach merges innovative research, cutting-edge community based projects and targeted advocacy that:
Educates hundreds of millions of people annually
Leverages billions of dollars for environmental initiatives
Implements ground-breaking environmental policy
Global Green USA
A great site for satisfying your curiosity about Superstrings and other things. Patricia Schwarz allows the layperson to understand theories in advanced theoretical physics.
The Official Superstring Website
Here are 2 sites for you to read about the The Double -slit Experiment. It’s about wave-particle duality and light refraction. The first is the Wiki article and the second is an interesting site I found which offers simpler explanations for many things within the field of Science. The second author however, does not dare to cross the line of the linear world, so his interpretations are based on scientific knowledge and opinions only. In effect, without crossing this line, many studies leave the studier in a quandary.
Through the work of Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie and others, it is now established that all objects have both wave and particle nature. Although some of the material regarding this light experiment is highly technical, the conclusions of the experiment are astounding. Because of the way light acts within the Double -slit experiment it appears light has some strange qualities. The author of the second article however, is careful about drawing conclusions.
Due to the fact my site is mostly about the world beyond science and how certain sciences come close to the non-linear, I have no problem at all with drawing a conclusion. There is a fear of crossing the linear realm into the non linear world, so I’ll help them out here. The author of the second article says particles do not “know” anything. This may be due to over-intellectualizing or absence of the acknowledgment of the unknown.
Particles (electron, photons, etc.) have intelligence. Light has intelligence. They are a part of The Infinite Field of Intelligence, therefore they have certain qualities of that field. The action of electrons and waves reported within the experiment, would be understandable within a scientific/spiritual paradigm. Scientific theories would take on a contextual quality.
Perhaps there is a confusion regarding awareness and intelligence. Certain forms of intelligence can be present without awareness. This would be an intelligence with certain proclivities or potentialities and not necessarily that of a biological or a sentient being who is aware that they exist. Photons are carriers of light energy, and a characteristic of all energy is that it cannot be destroyed. For anything to be carried there has to be movement, therefore a driver for the carrier of that eternal energy would be necessary__ergo intelligence. In fact all scientific experiments of a quantum nature would become crystal clear within the Infinite Knowledge of The Field.__Myswizard
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article “Double-slit experiment”.
Theories With Problems
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Fractals
Download some of the .pdf files. The information is worth it, if you’re a fractal lover.
Fractals, Chaos
The work of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
Sheldrake Online
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Quantum Mechanics)
The Flower of Life…The Spiral and the Holographic Matrix
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
Everything I Know…Buckminster Fuller