Doomsday in reverse?

"A couple of scientists reckon that God or time travellers broke the Large Hadron Collider. The duo, who are, remarkably, still walking the streets, have published a paper claiming that the world’s largest particle accelerator, which failed a week after being switched on last September could have been broken by divine intervention or time agents from the future."

So let me see if I have this straight. The Large Hadron Collider's grandfather came back from the future to sabotage the search for the God particle? Alternately, maybe it was God? Same diff? Really.

Sigh. Back to the beginning. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons or lead nuclei. It lies in a 17 mi in circumference, as much as 570 ft beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson particle. To make this confirmation of the heretofore theorized article, the conditions at the beginning of the universe have to be reconstructed. So, ignorant of their arrogance, and unfamiliar with the issues around the building of the Tower of Babel, scientists built a collider deep underground so they can replicate the conditions at the moment of creation, (Big Bang), watch to see if this particle is among the matter flung out from the Bang's aftermath, and then track the Higgs Boson if it exists. Whoever thought that replicating the moment of the universe's creation must have been crazy. Even non-scientists worried about the likelihood that the Bang, even though it was deep under the Alps, would cause a black hole and suck the earth into it. I hate when that happens.

Well, there have been a series of, shall we say, mishaps, with the LHC every time it was turned on. The notion that enough weird and spooky things have been happening to the LHC that even scientists would consider that God was behind it is good news. Why? Because any time people are recognizing that God is in control, and even better, that He might not be happy with your choices, is a good thing. The notion that enough weird and spooky things have been happening to the LHC that even scientists would consider that God was behind it is bad news. Why? If deep atheists are wondering if God is involved then God must have really gotten their attention, but usually after that, judgment comes.

Some of the remarkable news links on this issue:
Is the Large Hadron Collider Killing its Own Grandfather? 
Censorship on a Cosmic Scale
Doomsday in reverse? 
Can God particle travel back in time to kill itself?

But here is the most remarkable link of all. Genesis 11:1-9

"Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.' Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11:1-9)

commentary here for more information on the Tower of Babel affair. The LHC definitely reminds me of the Tower of Babel. As for the LHC and the elusive Higgs Boson God particle, we will wait and see what God will do!

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