Smashing!

Most people try to avoid collision; at CERN, they’re seeking God.

It’s hard to talk about Big Bang without an exclamation, but in science, there are a lot of question marks. The beginning of the universe is one of them. Scientists working in Europe have gone underground to look for answers. They’ve been tunneling for over twenty years, and they’re only going around in circles.

If you thought Michael Phelps was fast, try seventeen miles 11,000 times per second, approaching the speed of enlightenment.

Collision may be cause for con-CERN; however, we would never have the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup if it weren’t for the peanut butter running into the chocolate bar, and the chocolate bar running into the peanut butter. Sometimes collision is good. Sometimes it’s delicious. It could mean the end of the world.

Modern chemistry says things are made up of more than mere earth, wind, fire, and water. Water, for instance, is made of two hydrogens to one oxygen, and you may need to drink a lot of it if you use the NaCl shaker too much. Yes, science has rearranged the alphabet into the periodic table of elements, but it still comes down to a tool of description.

Each square of the checkered table has a little number indicating mass. Everything has mass. Even gas has mass. This is the curiosity. This is the question. When you think of the spirit world, or non-existence, non-mass can be a primary function. So if existence equates with mass, what lends mass to existence? Nuclear physicists posit there is a Higgs boson, nicknamed the God Particle, which gives mass to everything.

The world might end later this month when they do get those beams up to full speed and collide them, but I never could get the hang of September anyway.

May your day be fused with many happy occurrences!