The Large Hadron Collider finally restarted again, with beams colliding at 7 TeV, an energy three and a half times faster than ever before.
It should hopefully usher a potential change in how we see physics, the nature of the cosmos, and how we came to be.
Scientists opened up the champagne after it started producing the record-breaking collisions, and for 18 to 24 months will be able to examine the results coming from the particle accelerator.
However it wasn’t without problems - it took three attempts before it started to run successfully.
The CERN Twitter feed reported at the point where it finally worked, and suitably the writer’s excitement made it sound like Captain Picard was doing something a bit mental with his photon torpedoes.
10.40 am - “Beams look really good this time, Preparing for energy ramp!”
10.54 am - “Ramping up now!”
11.11 am - “Half of today’s energy at the LHC: 1.75 TeV! All lights are green!”
11.22 am - “Physicists hold their breath in the control room of the LHC.”
11.30 am - “3 TeV at the LHC. Almost 3.5 Tev...”
11.41 am - “The ramp is successfully completed! Beams are now accelerated to 3.5 TeV, the highest energy! Preparing for collisions now!!
11.49 am - “Operators are stabilizing the beams... yes, we’ll attempt to collide them soon!”
11.58 am - 12.01 am - “Final sequence for collapsing is starting! Collapsed, now stabilizing the beams. Experiment have seen collisions!!!!!!!!!!!”
12.01am - “First time in the history!!!!!!!!!!!! World record!!!!!!!!”
12.03 am - “Nature does it all the time with cosmic rays (and with higher energy) but this is the first time this is done in Laboratory!!”
12.23 am - “Now we have stable colliding beams-first time ever at this energy!”
Another latest tweet showing that data is already being collected successfully: “Experiments have already recorded thousands of events! We had more than 1 hour of stable and colliding beams.”
And the latest: "Experiments have half million events! More than three hours of stable and colliding beams. WOW!"
WOW indeed.
You can never, ever, teach airthmetic to a chimp and neither will a human being realise the wider picture unless and until he has realised his true innate power/self. Only when thus empowered, will he then realised that it exists, mere knowledege being of "others"/without - an ownership/relativity issue, not one of reality. Reality, oka permanance, is about one self whereas others is about relativity/non-reality/transience. That's why the blind-cum-blinded will never, ever, realised the existence of the reality behind the relativity. The sense of smell, say, will never afford the concept of fragrance. One is physical and the other non-physical. A dog has no sense of filth nor beauty though it has an acute sense of smell.
As much as these "scientific" jokers and their physical triumps may try to trample over others through the medium of capturing the attention of the blind-cum-blinded, they will have to empty their over-filled cups to realise the reality behind what limited picture they are trying to uncover. In the end, should they be successful, they will have to acknowledge that it was all in vain - they'll then have to finally admit that there is something beyond the physical which their limited vision can never probe. In the meantime, much resources have been wasted, many worshippers "distracted", some to the point of insanity, and the true march of progress for many, stunted or even reversed. You really, really, cannot teach a monkey arithmetic, let alone mathematics.
Those whose cups are always filled will have to break theirs to get some measure of fulfillment - raising the ego, oka projectivity or the combustion of oxygen, only heightens the level of sheer idiocy, oka stupidity. Intellect, oka the "right"/projective mind, is merely stupidity whereas emotion, oka the "left"/subjective mind, is merely dumbness. Without a single exception. It ought to be exciting should something out-of-this-world happens to that wasteful monstrosity.