The most powerful atom-smasher ever built

[melody]

This is an interesting article about the most powerful atom - smasher to start operating in August

Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_re_eu/doomsday_collider

[Kailaurius]

Wow, that is very interesting.  Who knows, maybe this LHC will be a huge step forward to discovering they never needed this LHC or any physical material device to learning the so-called "secrets" of the Universe.  They could then look back in amusement at how much extraordinary time, money, and effort was spent to reach this point, but I'm sure that would be moot at that point, hehe.  That kind of reminds me of a saying I once heard.  I can't remember the exact quote or even who quoted it.  I think it might have been Einstein, but I just can't remember.  Anyway, it was quoted something like knowledge being self-imploding.  The more complex knowledge becomes the closer it gets to being simplistic, or basically knowledge becomes so complex that it eventually implodes and everything becomes extremely simplistic, or something like that. 

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how or if this devices plays a roll in further enlightenment.  It certainly appears that more and more scientists are making extraordinary progress toward learning the true meaning of how the Universe works, and it's always exciting to hear more and more scientists expanding their research beyond the limitations of the Newtonian laws of physics.

[melody]

Here are a few reference links for the Large Hadron Collider  LHC

LHC – Homepage
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

YouTube
Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs
[1 of 3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJ6PMfnz2E
[2 of 3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNPpeVvZ9w&feature=related
[3 of 3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XbKZwXK-3c&feature=related

The first video states that LHC would be turned on in Noivember 2007, but this was postponed and will apparently take plave in August 2008.

Here is another set of links for the same videos as above, in case some links would not work.

BBC Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs
1 of 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktb7LJRbMb8
2 of 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4lPNpF9QXU
3 of 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nofDzY5SfbA

[melody]

This only shows that scientists have many theories but no real prove for their theories. They build mathematical models, very logical one's, where everything seems to fit, and if something is missing, they invent a particle to make up for the missing part of the equation. Even the dark matter was "invented" in this way, to balance their formulas, and create a comprehensive whole.

I wonder what they will find out through LHC experimentation, that is, if they don't destroy us all in the process. Will they find some real answers? Would thouse lead to more questions and more theories that they and people in general people would accept as true for a while?

It is great to have theories, and it makes one look very wise. But until one knows for sure, and not only because one wants to and wholeheartedly believes a theory but because it is definitely so, those theories will remain only that, theories, nothing more and nothing less. And I think this goes for many areas of human endeavour, not only science...