Monday, November 22, 2004

"By using powerful computers to reconstruct the sub-atomic interactions which produce the particles emerging from each collision, the detector can, in a sense, run time backwards."

RHIC's STAR Detector.

If God had meant for us to explore high-speed subatomic collisions, he would have made the experiments explainable in terms I can understand. Since this is not the case, we can only conclude that these experiments are immoral and wrong. But since they are running time backwards, I'd like them to run it backwards to a point before I bought all that Penton Media stock, so I can invest this time in something a little safer like comic books or something.

Oh, and check out their Disaster Scenarios:
- Creation of a black hole that would "eat" ordinary matter.

- Initiation of a transition to a new, more stable universe.

- Formation of a "strangelet" that would convert ordinary matter to a new form.


And what is wrong with a new, more stable universe? I'd like to see a universe in which all systems are linear. You could calculate all kinds of things and never have to worry about that chaos theory stuff.

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