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The philosophy and science behind Anti Matter and CERN
Before I start this discourse on the philosophy and science behind anti matter, I would like to mention that I am neither an philosopher or a particle physicist. This is very much a foray in uncharted territory for me as it is for the people at CERN reportedly attempting to re create the big bang.
Anti Matter/ God's particle/ Higgs Boson call it what you want. Newton's theory states that every action has an equal and opposite reactions. The world is filled with symmetrical opposites. Sunrise and Sunset, Good and Evil, Proton and Electron, Positron and Neutrino's, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Christian Cross, Hindu Swastika. The list goes on. Logic says Matter has a opposite - Anti Matter. The big deal with this regard is that, this anti matter is missing. Or gone missing at least by the time that Humans were capable of inhabiting the planet. Curiosity has and will also be the important characteristic of humans, a quest to known the unknown, to create the uncreatable. No wonder Tom Cruise still makes Mission Impossible movies. The quest for Anti Matter started a long time back, with the increase in study of particle physics. Stephen Hawkings "A brief History of Time" piqued the curiosity of the normal man to understand the origins of the human race. To understand time zero. The point of impact during which the Big Bang occurred exploding into a entire galaxy. All mathematical derivations are valid to an exact point but go haywire when time tends to zero. Since math couldn't help us anymore, CERN now quests to understand by practically trying to re enact the Big Bang. Anti Hydrogen was produced by CERN in 2005, but it still didn't explain why exactly time zero would occur or why only matter stayed while anti matter disappeared. Hence the LHC project and D-day tomorrow in the depths of the Franco Swiss border. I am not capable of understanding or explaining the exact science behind the process, but the basic concept is to collide high speed neutrons beam and cause high impact collision and analyze the matter left behind after the collision. The hope is to find particles created at the point immediately after time zero, thus hoping for an explanation of the missing anti matter(With Dark Mater, the two unknown's cover most of the matter in the galaxy, The known reportedly cover 4%). Thats the science. The results will be known as the week, month and years go on. Now to the philosophy.
Religion explains Big Bang as an act of god. This is supported by the fact that, we cannot as of yet explain why time zero occurred. Why that specific time. Religion says, god made it happen. Science has no answer to this. With the creating of anti matter, science created something which were the first steps to shows that we could re create something believed extensively to have been made only by god. Hence the further attempts being made to show that, time zero occurred for a reason. An explanation other than "An act of god". Whether the occurrences of this week would, solve the question is a issue even the die hard gambler would have poor odds to bet on. It is a foray into the unknown. Whatever the results may be, the fact remains that religion is a creature of faith, not of reason. Explanation of the creation of galaxy could be explained by particle physics, but how much will it stick to the general masses. The version "God created Adam and Eve" has no proof. No reason for us to believe. But people do. Will particle physics be able to change this unquestionable faith. Even if it does, will it be capable of inspiring the masses, as religion does. A common man seeks god for faith. For inspiration. For a silent prayer. God is an belief or an idea. A idea that there is someone looking out for you. A atheist, a particle physicist, a agnostist, a person like me with eclectic views and contradicting ideas, all in this sub set sometime or the other hope that some one is helping them. In a similar way why can't the person who believes in god see the idea of god as very simply someone who looks out for him. Will the God of Particle Physics provide these for the people.
Part 2 of this discourse will follow after the test is conducted....But of course true results of the test will take years to unravel
Anti Matter/ God's particle/ Higgs Boson call it what you want. Newton's theory states that every action has an equal and opposite reactions. The world is filled with symmetrical opposites. Sunrise and Sunset, Good and Evil, Proton and Electron, Positron and Neutrino's, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Christian Cross, Hindu Swastika. The list goes on. Logic says Matter has a opposite - Anti Matter. The big deal with this regard is that, this anti matter is missing. Or gone missing at least by the time that Humans were capable of inhabiting the planet. Curiosity has and will also be the important characteristic of humans, a quest to known the unknown, to create the uncreatable. No wonder Tom Cruise still makes Mission Impossible movies. The quest for Anti Matter started a long time back, with the increase in study of particle physics. Stephen Hawkings "A brief History of Time" piqued the curiosity of the normal man to understand the origins of the human race. To understand time zero. The point of impact during which the Big Bang occurred exploding into a entire galaxy. All mathematical derivations are valid to an exact point but go haywire when time tends to zero. Since math couldn't help us anymore, CERN now quests to understand by practically trying to re enact the Big Bang. Anti Hydrogen was produced by CERN in 2005, but it still didn't explain why exactly time zero would occur or why only matter stayed while anti matter disappeared. Hence the LHC project and D-day tomorrow in the depths of the Franco Swiss border. I am not capable of understanding or explaining the exact science behind the process, but the basic concept is to collide high speed neutrons beam and cause high impact collision and analyze the matter left behind after the collision. The hope is to find particles created at the point immediately after time zero, thus hoping for an explanation of the missing anti matter(With Dark Mater, the two unknown's cover most of the matter in the galaxy, The known reportedly cover 4%). Thats the science. The results will be known as the week, month and years go on. Now to the philosophy.
Religion explains Big Bang as an act of god. This is supported by the fact that, we cannot as of yet explain why time zero occurred. Why that specific time. Religion says, god made it happen. Science has no answer to this. With the creating of anti matter, science created something which were the first steps to shows that we could re create something believed extensively to have been made only by god. Hence the further attempts being made to show that, time zero occurred for a reason. An explanation other than "An act of god". Whether the occurrences of this week would, solve the question is a issue even the die hard gambler would have poor odds to bet on. It is a foray into the unknown. Whatever the results may be, the fact remains that religion is a creature of faith, not of reason. Explanation of the creation of galaxy could be explained by particle physics, but how much will it stick to the general masses. The version "God created Adam and Eve" has no proof. No reason for us to believe. But people do. Will particle physics be able to change this unquestionable faith. Even if it does, will it be capable of inspiring the masses, as religion does. A common man seeks god for faith. For inspiration. For a silent prayer. God is an belief or an idea. A idea that there is someone looking out for you. A atheist, a particle physicist, a agnostist, a person like me with eclectic views and contradicting ideas, all in this sub set sometime or the other hope that some one is helping them. In a similar way why can't the person who believes in god see the idea of god as very simply someone who looks out for him. Will the God of Particle Physics provide these for the people.
Part 2 of this discourse will follow after the test is conducted....But of course true results of the test will take years to unravel
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Abuse 101 and the solutions to man's conundrum
Walking through another of New Jersey's quite unnecessarily grown forest lands in between residential complexes, malls, office buildings and any other sort of structure that man has learnt to build I had the privilege of once again teaching non Tamil speaking people the wonders of the Tamil abuses. Hence the idea of Abuse 101. A introductory class exploring the intricate connection between abuses in multiple language. Being a multi linguist with regard to abuses, in this introductory class I plan to cover the languages of Tamil, Hindi and English. Let us begin.
To start of with, all languages in general have an unnatural liking to associate their abusive(A) words with male and female genitalia(Latin). The love seems to be mutual taking into account that when the genitalia is its use to preserve our growth rate, the A words flow out spontaneously. Let us take an example.
English - Dick, Pussy, Asshole(The last term may not be essential in exchanging body fluids to contribute to the preservation of lineage but tell that to the people into it(Pun intended)
Hindi- Chut, Gand, Lund
Tamil- Mairu(Again this is not a exact part of the genitalia but then Abuse 101 is an art and not an exact science)
There are a few more terms especially in Tamil, but I could not classify them as abuses. Those are just used by people without Abuse ethics while using Abusive language. A status must also be maintained when the terms are used.
Common Prefixes used: Both English and Tamil have a word which can be prefixed before any Abusive word. Here again the similarity is uncanny. Tamil has Otha and English has Fuck. Both have a literal translation of indulging in the act of intercourse, but the list of applications that it can be used for is beyond the scope of this introductory class. They can be used before any future Abusive word you can learn and it will still sound hip.
Darwin's theory of evolution(I am totally in love with it) says that the needs of our future generation will always come before us. That may be the reason by, Abusive words have also been framed in such a manner that, most common abuses indulge in degrading out lineage, hence inducing a guilt on the abusee by the abuser. Examples range from the commonly used Bastard, Son of a Bitch in the language of English, Thevudia Pulla and Lavadikabal in Tamil which are exact translation of the fore mentioned English words. Hindi uses a more subtle way of abusing our lineage by inducing the topic of female's of the family with the use of the words Maa Ki Chut, Behenchod and numerous other combination.
The language of Abuses is a topic of very little study, but contains essential points which illuminates man's needs and weakness. More importantly it may also contain hidden nuggets of knowledge which will require further study. For example, a common joke/quote/proverb(call it what you want) say "Men have blood to fill their brain and their penis but never at the same time". A common abuse in English is "Dick Head". Were our fore fathers and pioneers of the language pointing to god that he made a crucial error with the anatomy of the male body. Shouldn't the Dick and the head been close to each other so that blood can flow to both at the same time. Were the pioneers of the abusive words suggesting solution to man's conundrum.
PS: This post is probably not suitable for kids. I should have probably posted this at the top, but then I am an exception to Darwin's Theory.
To start of with, all languages in general have an unnatural liking to associate their abusive(A) words with male and female genitalia(Latin). The love seems to be mutual taking into account that when the genitalia is its use to preserve our growth rate, the A words flow out spontaneously. Let us take an example.
English - Dick, Pussy, Asshole(The last term may not be essential in exchanging body fluids to contribute to the preservation of lineage but tell that to the people into it(Pun intended)
Hindi- Chut, Gand, Lund
Tamil- Mairu(Again this is not a exact part of the genitalia but then Abuse 101 is an art and not an exact science)
There are a few more terms especially in Tamil, but I could not classify them as abuses. Those are just used by people without Abuse ethics while using Abusive language. A status must also be maintained when the terms are used.
Common Prefixes used: Both English and Tamil have a word which can be prefixed before any Abusive word. Here again the similarity is uncanny. Tamil has Otha and English has Fuck. Both have a literal translation of indulging in the act of intercourse, but the list of applications that it can be used for is beyond the scope of this introductory class. They can be used before any future Abusive word you can learn and it will still sound hip.
Darwin's theory of evolution(I am totally in love with it) says that the needs of our future generation will always come before us. That may be the reason by, Abusive words have also been framed in such a manner that, most common abuses indulge in degrading out lineage, hence inducing a guilt on the abusee by the abuser. Examples range from the commonly used Bastard, Son of a Bitch in the language of English, Thevudia Pulla and Lavadikabal in Tamil which are exact translation of the fore mentioned English words. Hindi uses a more subtle way of abusing our lineage by inducing the topic of female's of the family with the use of the words Maa Ki Chut, Behenchod and numerous other combination.
The language of Abuses is a topic of very little study, but contains essential points which illuminates man's needs and weakness. More importantly it may also contain hidden nuggets of knowledge which will require further study. For example, a common joke/quote/proverb(call it what you want) say "Men have blood to fill their brain and their penis but never at the same time". A common abuse in English is "Dick Head". Were our fore fathers and pioneers of the language pointing to god that he made a crucial error with the anatomy of the male body. Shouldn't the Dick and the head been close to each other so that blood can flow to both at the same time. Were the pioneers of the abusive words suggesting solution to man's conundrum.
PS: This post is probably not suitable for kids. I should have probably posted this at the top, but then I am an exception to Darwin's Theory.
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