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Quote from Dr. Otto E. Rossler, a modern day Leonardo Devinche, Professor of Theoretical Biochemistry, visiting Professor of Theoretical Physics, inventor of the Rossler Attractor, founder of Endophysics, winner of the 2003 Chaos Award of the University of Liege and the 2003 Rene Descartes Award, contributor to hyper chaos, micro relativity and author of approximately 300 scientific papers.
Professor Rosslers latest interview with Alan Gillis may be found at (http://www.scientificblogging.com/big_science_gambles/professor_rossler_takes_on_the_lhc) scientificblogging.com
Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.
Particle physicists have run out of ideas and are at a dead end forcing them to take reckless chances with more and more powerful and costly machines to create new and never-seen-before, unstable and unknown matter while Astrophysicists, on the other hand, are advancing science and knowledge on a daily basis making new discoveries in these same areas by observing the universe, not experimenting with it and with your life.
The LHC is a dangerous gamble as CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown."
The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think similarly about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the CERN quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. Reason and common sense will tell you that the risks far outweigh any potential(as CERN physicists themselves say) benefits.
This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out."
Find out more about that "stuff" below;
http://www.SaneScience.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
http://www.lhcdefense.org/
http://www.lhcconcerns.com
Popular Mechanics - "World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle'" - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4216588.html"
Particle accellerators rock!
Solar and wind are great, but at the moment they cost something like $.50 or much much more per kilowatt-hour to generate, while coal is happily set at $.02 per kilowatt hour. The technology is not perfected, so they are NOT super efficient and are in no way cheap. Same goes for the cars. Changing cars to run on those fuels would cost billions of dollars, which the car companies do not like to spend easily, when they can sell you a perfectly good gas car right now and Make money. Or you, the consumer, who professes your "care" about the environment, would also not like to spend $100,000 on a "green" car that uses these natural fuels of which you speak. And yet, people will buy new cars to be "greener" and "save money". You know what's cheaper? take that POS car you get when you turn 16, drive that SOB into the ground. Drive the hell out of it, and in the end, you will save so much money over buying a new one, because those fuel savings take over 10 years in most cases to even near paying themselves off.
Why do we have nuclear bombs? well, like they said when they were making them, it's to counter-intimidate those who were also building them. Because, like it or not, if we take the high road and don't make them, someone else will, and that really sucks for us. So, unless everyone could decide to be decent to one another all at once, we have to continue building up arms to stay "safe" in the world.
Welcome to the world of politics kid. And economics. and all the other BS that makes this world suck. We do the best we can. You do the same, perhaps YOU can make a difference, but for gods sake, do not turn out like every other environmentalist who spews ideas of drastic change without a) seeing if it is actually feasible and b) looking at the cost to make these changes.