Okay so it’s 3:33 AM, I really should be sleeping. I was looking up cupcake recipes when all of a sudden I decided, I know…I’ll check my email! But there are always those stories on the side before I log in telling tantalizing tales of this and that. Tonight however something really caught my eye…it said “Critics Fear This Could Destroy Earth” Okay, how can you not be drawn to something like that. I kinda figured they would just go on about global warming and polar bears some like their usual stories. No, no. They meant impending doom this time. Caused by the Large Hadron Collider.
Bah. News Media is retarded. I mean really now they use the word “Doom” to describe what would happen after this thing is turned on in August. I’m so sure.
If you know anything about the Large Hadron Collider which I’m kinda guessing most people don’t. Which pisses me off actually. I mean this thing is huge, super huge, and it’s set to turn on in a month and this is the first the press is releasing anything on it. Seems weird to me. Well anyways, it’s this atom smashing machine-the most powerful one ever built-that’s some crazy number of feet below Switzerland and France. The whole purpose is to try and find extra dimensions to prove string theory and discover dark matter by recreating what they think the seconds following the big bang were like.
Okay, issue! You’re doing what now??! I’m a very science oriented person. I love geology, paleontology, marine biology…okay so I’m completely bias on the matter because I’m a natural science person. But still…come on now. Trying to recreate the seconds after the big bang?! That doesn’t sound like it won’t have any reprocautions at all. . . O_O
I mean I’m not a physicist and the people who actually are think it’s pretty safe. I think the quote was that the chances of it causing a global catastrophy were about the same as winning some lotteries. I really don’t think that this thing will destroy the planet though. That’s not my concern. I trust scientists to a pretty high degree it’s just….
They’ve kept this thing pretty quiet, nobody knows exactley what will happen, and really-
I think science might be going too far.
I think it’s already gone too far though…it almost seems like this is necessary now with all the progress we’ve made. I just appreciate our planet and I would hate to see us destroy it trying to figure out how it was made. I think some things are better left unanswered. We’ve got this beautiful planet and I never have understood why people can’t just appreciate it for what it is and what we know about it. Why don’t we spend more time focusing even more about what’s on the earth right now instead of how and why the earth is here in the first place? Because I’m guessing…just guessing…but I don’t think anyones ever going to find the answer to that one.
The Earth is big enough, why do we need to understand the universe too?
Bah, well anyways. what do I know, I’m just a 17 year old whose too focused on natural sciences, right?
Yeh.
Goodnight.
