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Second Snag This Week Could Delay LHC for Weeks
sciencehabit writes "After a transformer failure earlier this week, the Large Hadron Collider has hit another snag — and this one is much more serious. As Science reports, 'At least one of the LHC's more than 1700 superconducting magnets failed, springing a leak and spewing helium gas into the subterranean tunnel that houses the collider ... How long [repairs take] will depend in part on how much of the LHC must be warmed to room temperature for servicing. If it's only a short section, the repair could be relatively quick. But the machine is built in octants, and if workers have to heat and cool an entire octant, then the cooling alone would take several weeks."
Reader Simmeh contributes coverage from the BBC. We recently discussed the transformer malfunction at the LHC, which was a smaller problem and has already been fixed. Update - 9/20 at 12:52 by SS: CNN reports that the LHC will be out of commission for two months.
Here's the deal that you don't pick up on Fox News or whatever your source of how Christians think/feel, etc... Even if "scathing sarcasm" was a sin, I wouldn't nor anyone else who wanted to would go to Hell. Now let that sink in for a bit.
Basically the argument is made, well if God is who he say he is, why doesn't he just simply come to Earth and say, "Here I am! I'm God! See I'm real!"? We'd all believe, right? Either that or we'd kill him and cast him off as a fool. Perhaps we would brutally kill him on a couple of sticks. I know Fox News and all the other modern day Pharisees would.
Okay, so I guess the deal is this. There is no man without sin. Therefore, none of us is worthy of Heaven. We're all totally going to Hell. Now being a merciful God, he came up with a way out. If we just admit that we're imperfect and believe that only through God's grace can we go to Heaven then he'll let us in. Pretty simple.
So the default consequence of dieing is a trip to Hell (since nobody's worthy of Heaven). A loving God doesn't want people to go to Hell. He makes a way out.
Now whether you believe that or not is your own business. But I hope that puts a dent in your perspective of what Christians actually believe. It's not, "if I sin I go to Hell". It's "because I sin, I should go to Hell, but Jesus made a way out, and nothing can take that away".