LHC: KerBloink!
The Large Hadron Collider, the LHC, made news:
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider managed to make two proton beams collide at high energy Tuesday, marking a “new territory” in physics, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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Charlie Rose replayed some interviews about the enterprise:
Do you believe in a Theory of Everything?
I really don’t know.
It sounds funny, but I felt the scientist’s response to Charlie Rose’s question was spot on. Too much trying to prove things in the air these days, too little modesty or objectivity about it all.
Seeking supersymmetry and the Higgs Field seems a glorious realm with which to occupy yourself. A vacation from reality at the same time that it is an investigation of that self same baseline. Factoid: the LHC tube is thought to be “the coldest area in the universe. Colder than outer space.”
You have to admire the dedication of the LHC team and envy their involvement in this deep yet fundamentally playful search for reality.
