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Atom Smasher a Good Thing?
This atom smasher sounds great on the surface and the scientists who are working on it are giving it glowing reviews about how much it could tell us but realistically, is it a good thing?
Look, Im all for science. Science explains a lot of things from evolution to medicine, biology to zoology, and ultimately I think science explains away religion and creationism, but there are certain things like cloning, controlling the weather with rockets and chemicals and atom smashers made to tell us about the beginning of the universe that maybe should be left untouched.
I understand what they want to do, but hopefully their quest for knowledge isn't blinding the potential negatives. They are not going to turn it on full blast for a few months to a year but when they do there is concern that this thing could trigger a black hole on Earth, that doesn't sound good.
Now the negatives that are brought up are probably Y2K in nature, they will probably be hyped up and turn out to be nothing really, but if they are right, I think a lot of us would be wising Y2K were true instead.
The article got me thinking of a Jeff Goldblum exchange in Jurassic Park:
Mike, there's always the typical paranoia surrounding these types of scientific experiments. These think tanks that believe they can "re-create" the big bang are such wack-jobs. Truth be told we have no idea how the universe was created, and for a group of people to believe not only that they do, but that they can attempt to re-create it is asinine. They're so full of themselves, thinking they can play God. Hey, the guys from the Manattan project feared they would ignite the atmosphere when they detonated the first atomic bomb. Well we're still here.
Well, they have already been pretty successful at playing God, They have identified much of our genetic code, cloned animals, (who knows if they have tried cloning a human), and are playing with rockets that stop rain. Thats pretty close.
Add to that, we essentially control what species live or die out based on whether or not we decide to list them as endangered or threatened.....like we know best for species on this planet.
Anyone animal that goes extinct has profound effects on the food chain which eventually comes back to us and our ability to survive.
So, maybe they don't know how the big bang went down, but they do have a pretty good idea. They have ways to look back in time whether its through geology or other sciences and they can get a picture of what life was like when it first formed.
The shear magnitude of this thing is incredible and they do know how black holes form, which if this thing does get turned on full power they are predicting it could create right here on earth.......Id rather not chance it. Science is good and tells us a lot but there are certain things better left untouched. These guys are too smart for their own good. Stick to finding cures and solving global warming/energy issues. I wonder how much energy thing monstrous thing consumes.....
I can understand mapping the genetic code, and even cloning animals. I can understand science that involves physically present objects. The big bang... it's a theory. It's been around for a while. You're telling me that we've had all these scientific advances since the advent of the big bang theory yet they haven't come up with something more plausible?
Here's the deal.. they came up with the theory and have spent years and years trying to prove it. I realize that's what science does, but at some point you'd think someone would have moved on to a different idea. The universe is such an incomprehensible void, and we are such an insignificant speck within that void. A human figuring out the order of the universe is on par with a single-cell micro-organism figuring out the solar system. It's not going to happen within that cell's lifetime, just as we're not figuring out the universe.
And black holes... formed by the collapse of massive balls of energy the size of the sun. I just can't believe they can duplicate that on earth. And if they are worried about mini-black holes, what about everyday life? Would there not be collision of particle matter every day that may create microscpoic black holes then? Maybe it's no big deal.