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Re: An interesting
We hope
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM
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Re: Thoughts on Thoughts
I certainly hope there will be discoveries forthcoming from the LHC that can at the very least contribute to our common good. I have nothing against scientific discovery but would personally prefer human centered and average human useful knowledge to take priority. If you look at the use of words such as Quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle and chaos theory as used in movies and some books it is obvious that most people still don't now what it is really about. It previously took almost a century or two for ground breaking thoughts to filter through to common knowledge. Perhaps it will now happen much faster with the internet etc. if we can avoid the misleading use of scientific terms often found in marketing and science debunking articles.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 15, 2008 at 2:39 PM
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Re: sam444
This is also troubling to me. It does seem as if human suffering and life is worth much less than the accumulation of knowledge by some sectors of society. At least this money is not spent on waging war, so we should be grateful for that. To many people, to be able to understand how all the forces and other phenomena in our world work together is so important that they forget that we have been living for a very long time without the foggiest clue about much we know today and the increase in knowledge does not relate directly to living a worthwhile life.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 15, 2008 at 2:26 PM
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Re: there is a fascinating program...
International cooperation is definitely a positive aspect of this and similar project.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM
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Re: CERN
Thanks for the compliment. I'm rather busy with non-blogging lately and I've been trying to get back into writing in my own language too, so I can't promise that I will keep this subject up to date. CERN has their own website:
LHC_Homepage that seems to be kept up to date and it has lots of interesting articles on the subject.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on September 15, 2008 at 2:15 PM
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An interesting
Subject that has had the world hold its breath in anticipation lets hope some good will come out of it for humanity thankyou
posted by
starday
on September 13, 2008 at 1:06 AM
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CERN
Aardi, I hope you will continue to keep us informed on the CERN project. You have a reporting style of giving information in a concise, yet entertaining, manner that you have become my primary source of further developements. Thank you. Good job!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 13, 2008 at 12:07 AM
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Thoughts on Thoughts
Scientific and other discoveries do have a profound effect on thought, philosophy, and art. Neoclassicism was a response to the rediscovery of Pompeii. Relativity drove a new movement in philosophy, based on the concept that constants such as time weren't really constant. Quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle gave rise to the idea of a limit on knowledge, reinforced by chaos theory. People have always tried to expand on an idea once they have learned it. So CERN may make discoveries that will drive a new look at old ideas. It has happened before.
posted by
mousehop
on September 12, 2008 at 8:27 AM
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I can't imagine it either. The money that is spent in the wrong places boggles my mind. sam
posted by
sam444
on September 12, 2008 at 7:34 AM
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there is a fascinating program...
I think it's on Discover network about the Hadron Collider. If nothing else, it has been a magnet for international cooperation, and that's worth something.
posted by
food4thought
on September 11, 2008 at 8:53 PM
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