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Life and Work On the LHC At CERN
An anonymous reader sends in a CNet Crave interview with a working physicist at CERN. The interview is full of detail about what it's like to work in this geek paradise (if a bit dumbed-down for an audience assumed not very technical). Dr. Paul Jackson, a particle physicist working on the LHC's Atlas experiment, says there's no chance of black holes wiping us out, and that the time travel speculation is bunkum. He is 100% convinced that they will find the Higgs boson. The scientists there favor Macs, while computers in the control room are Linux-based. "What would happen if you were standing in front of the beam? You would die. It would be a pretty spectacular death, and you wouldn't know a lot about it. ... It would be the equivalent of having 87kg of TNT dumped into your body."
Einstein said '2 things i deem infinite, the Universe and the stupidity of man'. He also explained us what mass is: a hurricane-like vortex of spacetime which according to his principle of equivalence between mass and acceleration, attracts more the faster it turns. Nobel prize wilczek and myself in my work on fractal Universes showed we can find the mass of all particles by considering the frequency of those vortices. But quantum physicists wouldnt accept Einstein nd when he died tried to promote absurd theories like the 'higgs' particle which nobody knows how can give 'mass' to every other particle of the Universe if it is invisible, if particles colliding repel... But Einstein was a lonely genius and quantum physicists were doing Nuclear Bombs and Atomic cannons (LHC is aquark cannon but in orwelian neolanugage now this industry has been privatized after the cold war nd). Plainly speaking we do not need this Damocles machine, a 13 billion $ hoax who prevents the expansion of true science, denies Einstein's work and will produce black holes and Einstein's quark condensates responsible for nova explosions. But a marketing campaing has convinced mankind with the hype of replicating the big-bang of the Earth and find the absurd Higgs particle that Nobel Prizeweinberg called the toilet particle to be flush in a vortex of mass of Doctor Einstein as the Earth will be this christmas. We will indeed die of infinite stupidity, because a extinct species nows nothing=0 and Knowledge/0=Infinite stupidity. Einstein also said 'those who pretend to impose truth with power will be the laugh of the gods'.
"The scientists there favor Macs"
Even the physicists turn pansy in Europe. A disgrace.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
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