No BLACK HOLE for our PLANET but for ME?
Technology.
From Alexander Bell’s 1876 invention of the telephone to today’s Hadron Collider.
Amazing.
Though. Bad news is on the horrizon.
I feel compelled to tell you that I feel like I am being slightly left behind in my own black hole. I don’t think I am ready for all this. I’m sorry. I just don’t mesh well with technology that has the potential to destroy me. I miss the good old days. Yep, the days when everything was so peachy. When people thrived over getting the Nokia “brick” phone. Oh wow. Those were the days.
New technology is being developed everyday and I like this. However, when something that has the potential to finish me. I’m bothered. I’m affraid my bubble will be burst.
With scientists probing the world for new things every day, there is nothing I can do to stop it from happening. What is next if it isn’t the Hadron Collider?
I am starting to feel insecure about this new technology and think it is pushing me over the edge.
Just so you understand where I am coming from check it out …THE HADRON COLLIDER..Dun, Dun, Darrr…(sure you have all heard about it and if you haven’t well your a step below me)…
Though I do think it is incredible piece of equipment, I just can’t grasp that scientists actually expect it to “re-create similar conditions at the very origin of the universe, the big bang” (SMH, 2008). WOW!
Well I can tell you in good faith that we are still alive. GOOD news folks, we weren’t sucked into a black like the doomsayers said. Yep this baby was turned on last Wednesday in Switzerland and I can report that it is giving successful results.
Since I have shared my struggle, it’s clear that I am not going to understand fully how this new technology works. So, I will try and make it easy for you.
According to scientists the Collider is meant to do just that. Two streams of protons, going in opposite directions, are meant to collide together at a speed very close to the speed of light “to produce the elusive Higgs boson, the last unobserved particle among those predicted by the Standard Model” (Wikipedia, 2008).
Easy Riggghhhhhhhhhttttttttt?…
Lets just take a step back, rewind and well, stick to the basics. In my mind I take it that it was created to find out where we came from, where earth and our universe evolved from, to understand how we evolved.
Am I right? Look at this thing. So complex, so scary.
