Posted on 12/05/2009 4:26:01 PM PST by KevinDavis
Shortly after the first of the year (if not already), the Large Hadron Collider the most powerful particle accelerator ever built will smash protons together at record energies. If the Earth remains intact, doomsayers will once again have been falsified. Every time they forecast the demise of the planet, those prophets of Earthly annihilation prove themselves no more foresightful than mortgage bankers or phony psychics.
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It may be that a black hole’s purpose is to keep a ‘chain reaction’ from happening at the center of the galaxy, by absorbing the intense radiation.
I don't know about Space-Time.
But, Time is a measurement of movement, and Space is a measurement of location.
Space is based on the idea of a fixed position (which isn't true).
Movement is fixed, so time is constant. However, human awareness of it is not.
From what I read, it will take another year to get it up to speed enough to energize a big enough 'bang' to simulate the beginning of Everything. (and maybe the end of everything. Which, since Obama is President, doesn't bother me that much).
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