Re: DESIDERATA

To Vert,

I agree with you.


Len Gaasenbeek


VERGON

Well, at last. An intelligent voice in the wilderness.

One thing I did not mention (and you may not agree with me) is the
blind alley of accelerator research --- so called "particle physics".

In my view, what happens when you smash a bunch of china dishes
together? You get a flock of shards.

The same thing happens when you smash a bunch of particles together.
They break up into a multiplicity of shards that are out of resonance.
Notice how fast they compensate ("decay") and assemble into resonant
states.

Although there has been some (very little) benefit, it certainly isn't
worth the time and money spent on it. Besides it's a blind alley and
thus wastefull. Quarks have come from Gell-Mann's effort to find a
common denominator to the "atomic zoo" --- and that's another blind
alley.

Of course, there's a lot of plush jobs involved and as it turns out the
accelerator people are great con men propagandising the money source.
They make odinary conmen look like pikers.

EXAMPLE:

"The machine could cost more than $6 billion, would measure roughly 20
miles from one side to the other and would require so many advanced
technologies that no single country could supply them all. Its goal
would be to mine the areas opened up by evidence indicating that
ultrapowerful new accelerators may be crucial in explaining not just
the nature of matter and energy but also the birth of the universe and
the structure of space and time themselves.
According to some theories, the machine could see evidence for
previously unknown dimensions, beyond the usual four, lurking right
under humanity's noses. Elusive particles that account for most of the
mass of the entire universe - the so-called dark matter - could
also turn up.
Scientists also hope to test theories that describe how the universe
may have behaved in its first explosive instants and to work out the
detailed properties of a particle called the Higgs boson. Believed to
be the key to why other particles have mass, the Higgs, if it exists,
may be discovered by accelerators now operating or being built."

Did you ever see such pure bull***?

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