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A New Clue to Explain Existence
NY Times ^ | 05/17/10 | Dennis Overbye

Posted on 05/17/2010 10:08:26 PM PDT by OldDeckHand

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin opposite, antimatter. If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well as a possible explanation for our own existence.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: cern; lhc; matter; physics; stringtheory
Last line in the story...

Joe Lykken, a theorist at Fermilab, said, “So I would not say that this announcement is the equivalent of seeing the face of God, but it might turn out to be the toe of God.”

1 posted on 05/17/2010 10:08:27 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was that was made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood [ "overcome" is more accurate] it.

A glimpse not of any "toe"--but of the "Mind" behind the "Face".

2 posted on 05/17/2010 10:22:26 PM PDT by milagro
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To: OldDeckHand
Einstein said “God does not play dice with the universe”, well maybe he did and had them slightly loaded in favor of matter.
3 posted on 05/17/2010 10:30:00 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: OldDeckHand
Maybe our ‘evil twins’ are happily living in an anti-time Universe.
4 posted on 05/17/2010 10:59:34 PM PDT by allmost
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To: OldDeckHand

Fools! The universe IS composed of anti-matter; matter is what is missing.

Just because we live here, we screwed up the terms.

It all goes back to misnaming the battery pole that has an excess of electrons “positive”, when electrons carry a negative charge.

Any Mad Scientist worthy of his collection of Igors knows this!


5 posted on 05/18/2010 12:38:26 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: OldDeckHand
for whatever strange reasons, the last line brought to mind this line;

''He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola He say "i know you, you know me" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free''

which I copied from here --> some strange analysis of an old Beatle tune
which leads one to believe the line from the tune was describing Ringo;
'so putting one and one and one, together,
minus two,

would still equal Ringo, then....
it's obvious, isn't it?

Ringo is da' Man!

It Don't Come Easy
...I don't ask for much, I only want trust
and you know it don't come easy...

Ok, so Ringo isn't "god" himself, but I'd choose him over Paul or John!

6 posted on 05/18/2010 1:22:33 AM PDT by BlueDragon (there is no such thing as a "true" compass, all are subject to both variation & deviation)
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To: OldDeckHand

The toe of God is what they may of glimsed. This statement using the G-word is going to set off the darwininst witch hunters to kill this evil line of thought and pursuit in their politically correct “science.”


7 posted on 05/18/2010 5:11:24 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: OldDeckHand

8 posted on 05/18/2010 5:43:21 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: OldDeckHand

One clue:

6x7=


9 posted on 05/18/2010 9:13:53 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
Thanks OldDeckHand.

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10 posted on 05/18/2010 6:07:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: OldDeckHand

Prov 8:30-31
30 Then I was the craftsman at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.


11 posted on 05/19/2010 6:53:04 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Maybe George Carlin was right:

“The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question, “Why are we here?” “Plastic! A—holes.”


12 posted on 05/19/2010 6:57:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: OldDeckHand

For some reason reminds me of this Steven Wright quote -

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.


13 posted on 05/19/2010 7:02:17 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: BlueDragon

“Needs more cowbell.”


14 posted on 05/20/2010 5:56:42 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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