September 12`th, 9.53 AM
Current mood: still sleeping
Music: Something very heavy....to wake up.
Just a few days ago i was watching the evening news. I am quite happy that I can do so since I`m not working on my MA thesis anymore. And I hope it will stay that way. So thesis: remain at the bottom of the river like you are supposed to. Don`t come back floating to the surface like a corpse which isn`t weighted down properly with stones, concrete or whatever. Just so you know.
But like I was saying; I was watching the news the other day and I saw an item about a large group of scientists who build the world`s largest proton excelerator. I`m not sure if anyone ever build a smaller one but anyway it`s located about eighteen kilometers below the surface in Switserland. You can imagine it as a circular twentyseven kilometer long tubesystem through which they send the tiniest particles - protones, neutrones, et cetera - at the speed of light. (!) At a certain point these particles will collide with each other to stimulate a so called 'big bang'. The type of 'big bang' which occured when the universe came into being. By stimulating such an event they hope to find out more about the way that the universe came into being. They`re especially looking for the Higgs particle. The missing piece in the scientific puzzle.
A reason to start a riot? Perhaps. Some scientists argued that such a stimulation could create a black hole which could swallow up the earth! Others argued that this is not possible since us mere humans can recreate a "big one" but not one like they occur in the universe. Simply said: we can`t recreate a 'big bang' of that magnitude.
I was planning to post this a day before the experiment started and I wanted to end with some sort of a eulogy but luckily for us we`re still here. So it comes down to this. This blog does not have the impact as it would have had a few days ago. So much for my personal 'blogging big bang...' But then again; i`m just a mere human whom cannot recreate a 'blogging big bang' of this magnitude. or can I!? Stay tuned for that. (Insert scary music here.)
HOPE YOU GUYS FIND YOUR HIGGS PARTICLE! :-)
Live your life!
