More of the same old "analyze the splinters" methodology. It infuriates me that millions of dollars are spent every 5 years or so on supercolliders. I submit that VERY LITTLE can be learned by colliding particles and analyzing the fragments which are created in an effort to learn anything new about matter. They want to find a "god particle" by smashing together protons? I think they will find the SMASHED GOD particles that way, but not much else.
Its ludicrous to me. Its like blowing up a house and then analyzing the flaming, smoldering ruins to try and learn something about the people who lived in that house. Why so many colliders and so few reactors being built? I don't mean nuclear fission reactors, but reactors which could be filled with nebula-like gases to analyze how they coalesce under heat and pressure and form new elements. How about spending money on a device to create gravity (and thus sow us how to repel/counteract it)?
This sort of stuff is a downer to me scientifically.
New elements are created by heat and pressure in nebulas, which themselves are created from the explosions of stars. Elements are "cooked up" in the thermonuclear reactions at the cores of stars, and the heaviest elements are created in that fashion. The other rare and trace elements are created in stellar nebulae. At best, a collider is only good for analyzing how specific particles fuse, or giving researchers a bunch of particle fragments (subatomic particles) to analyze. It yields very little in the way of usable data which can be applied to anything useful.
You know, there is a HUGE incentive to petition for research funding. MILLIONS of dollars, the involvement of universities, and creation of jobs for those specialized scientists who would be unemployed if it weren't for these type of projects. I mean, a God particle? And they will find it in a supercollider on earth? SERIOUSLY? Why can people get money to look for a "God particle"?????
More of the same old "analyze the splinters" methodology. It infuriates me that millions of dollars are spent every 5 years or so on supercolliders. I submit that VERY LITTLE can be learned by colliding particles and analyzing the fragments which are created in an effort to learn anything new about matter. They want to find a "god particle" by smashing together protons? I think they will find the SMASHED GOD particles that way, but not much else.
Its ludicrous to me. Its like blowing up a house and then analyzing the flaming, smoldering ruins to try and learn something about the people who lived in that house. Why so many colliders and so few reactors being built? I don't mean nuclear fission reactors, but reactors which could be filled with nebula-like gases to analyze how they coalesce under heat and pressure and form new elements. How about spending money on a device to create gravity (and thus show us how to repel/counteract it)?
This sort of stuff is a downer to me scientifically.
You could send him after Stephen Hawking, but it would be a very short chase.
