Have you heard about this. Physicists launch search for the God Particle. The most incredible thing about the Large Hadron Collider(LHC), the ring-shaped accelerator that revved up for the first time on September 10, 2008, in a tunnel near Geneva, is that it ever got built. Twenty-six nations pitched in more than $8 billion to fund the project. The European Organization for Nuclear Research--enlisted the help of 5,000 scientists and engineers to construct a machine of unprecendented size, complexity, and ambition.
Measuring almost 17 miles in circumference, the LHC uses 9,300 superconducting magnets, cooled by liquid helium to 1.9 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero(271.3 C), to accelerate two streams of protons in opposite directions. In fact, the goal of the LHC is at once simple and grandiose: It was created to discover new atomic particles. One of the most sought of these is the Higgs boson, also known as the God particle because, according to current theory, it endowed all other particles with mass. Such a discovery would be a big step toward developing a unified description of the four fundamental forces--the "theory of everything" that would explain all the basic interactions in the universe.
According to Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, to the uninitiated(which is a little condescending lol), all this talk of new particles can be baffling, he admits. A better way to appreciate the importance of the LHC, Wilczek suggests, is to remember that , according to quantum mechanics, those particles are also waves on a sea that pervades the universe--and we are like fish in that sea, slowly cottoning to what's around us. "The equations tell us that what we perceive as empty space is in fact not empty," Wilczek explains. "It's a material that changes the way things behave. We're embedded in this medium, we know it's there, but we don't know what it's made of. The LHC is the instrument that's going to tell us."
Where have we heard this before?
Thus it is that the Tao produces [all things], nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them.--Tao Te Ching
This Chinese text tells us that the Tao, which means Spirit, produces everything, nourishes everything, and maintains everything. It spreads Itself over everything, It flows through everything and is in all things. Indeed, being all that is, there can be nothing outside It. "I am God and there is no other." [Isaiah]
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.--Amos 4:13
Measuring almost 17 miles in circumference, the LHC uses 9,300 superconducting magnets, cooled by liquid helium to 1.9 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero(271.3 C), to accelerate two streams of protons in opposite directions. In fact, the goal of the LHC is at once simple and grandiose: It was created to discover new atomic particles. One of the most sought of these is the Higgs boson, also known as the God particle because, according to current theory, it endowed all other particles with mass. Such a discovery would be a big step toward developing a unified description of the four fundamental forces--the "theory of everything" that would explain all the basic interactions in the universe.
According to Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, to the uninitiated(which is a little condescending lol), all this talk of new particles can be baffling, he admits. A better way to appreciate the importance of the LHC, Wilczek suggests, is to remember that , according to quantum mechanics, those particles are also waves on a sea that pervades the universe--and we are like fish in that sea, slowly cottoning to what's around us. "The equations tell us that what we perceive as empty space is in fact not empty," Wilczek explains. "It's a material that changes the way things behave. We're embedded in this medium, we know it's there, but we don't know what it's made of. The LHC is the instrument that's going to tell us."
Where have we heard this before?
Thus it is that the Tao produces [all things], nourishes them, brings them to their full growth, nurses them, completes them, matures them, maintains them, and overspreads them.--Tao Te Ching
This Chinese text tells us that the Tao, which means Spirit, produces everything, nourishes everything, and maintains everything. It spreads Itself over everything, It flows through everything and is in all things. Indeed, being all that is, there can be nothing outside It. "I am God and there is no other." [Isaiah]
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.--Amos 4:13
The flow of pure Spirit always pervades my consciousness and my physical body. Realizing that God is the animating essence of all life, that God withholds nothing from me, I prepare myself for a life of joy, love, accomplishment, health, and well-being. I permit myself to believe in the divine freedom that is made manifest in my life.
Affirmation: Today I hold my thought steadfast in the realization that Divine Life is flowing through this very moment. I believe in the fullness of the bounty of God. There can be no lack in Spirit. Spirit now inspires me in everything I do, say, and think.
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