My Cubs Book & The God Particle September 8, 2008
Posted by glabwrites in Big Mike, Coping With The Cubs, Creation Museum, Cubs, George W. Bush, God Particle, Higgs Boson, Iraq, John McCain, Karen Roszkowski, Michael G. Glab, Sarah Palin, Science, War Fever.trackback
Hey, I’m back! The book is finished and has been sent off to my e-publisher. Yahoooooooo!
Keep an eye on this space for the release date of “Coping With The Cubs: A Life Of Depression, A Year Of Hope.”
Cover Detail, Designed by Karen L. Roszkowski
Nice to see that the forces of ignorance have been as strong as ever during my absence. No, I’m not talking about that big powwow in Minneapolis last week. Actually, this is the first Republican ticket that doesn’t make me want to run screaming for the medicine chest. John McCain seems a decent fellow with his heart in the right place (even though he has to play nice with all the right-wingnuts of the GOP.) And I give him a lot of credit for selecting a woman as a running mate. Here’s to you, old Johnny, for putting the first MILF on a national ticket!
Sarah Palin: The First Hot Veep?
No, the ignoramuses I refer to are those Chicken Littles who’ve been trying to stop the first run of the new Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
I’m a science nut so I’ve been geeked since 1995 when funding was approved for the facility. The LHC is now the largest particle collider ever built, making the previous record-holder, the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago look like an elementary school running track. The Tevatron has been – and the LHC will be – on the lookout for a little thing called the Higgs Boson, also known as “The God Particle.” The Higgs, if found, would be the most elementary particle yet discovered. It would pretty much explain why there are things in this crazy, mixed-up Universe.
The Bang Gang: CERN Scientists Try To Understand The Big Bang
As always, whenever there’s a huge scientific advancement, the hand-wringers start yelling about how it’s going to kill us all. The scaredy-cats in question fear that the LHC will inadvertantly create a black hole Wednesday when it’s turned on. Some people watch too many sci-fi movies. They envision this black hole popping into existence and sucking everything in the world into itself, rendering the outcome of the 2008 baseball season moot. The LHC already has caused any number of petitions and lawsuits to pop into existence.
There’s an anti-science mood in the world today, particularly here in the USA. Strange, when you consider that we live in the a world where huge strides have been made against disease and hunger, where a person can travel from Colombo, Sri Lanka to Des Moines, Iowa in a matter of hours rather than months, and where every schoolchild can listen to the Jonas Brothers on a miniaturized, portable, self-contained music player even when they’re supposed to be studying polynomials for that big test tomorrow. All thanks to science.
Knowledge Is Good: Don’t You Think? Or Don’t You Think?
Most people in the world (and, again, in the USA in particular) would prefer to be ignorant. And pundits wonder how we could have fallen for George W. Bush’s Iraq war.
Glad to be back. Talk to you next time.
The incredible strides we make in science seem to be toooo scary to that ever controlling 1% to put it all to use. It’s kinda like, we can put people on the moon, but we can’t pave our streets to last more than a year- hmmm.
Consume, make sure the mayor’s nephew can still have a job filling potholes next season.
Or the packaging for the sample pills given to doctors? Are you serious, enough plastic, foil and paper to create a Hot Wheels track and 2 cars, to distribute 10 pills???
OK, a silly rant perhaps, but really do we need disposable EVERYTHING??? Thanks for the vent.
Go Cubs. ( and for us fair weather folk, Go Sox).