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“Science Does not Think”, so said Heidegger. And I am with him.

Scientists do not think. They formulate, scheme, experiment, control, create and destroy. They do all this without any consideration of the consequences or ethics of their actions. Heidegger wanted to put philosophy back on its thrown as the Queen of the sciences and the head of all other disciplines, where it should be, we might add! But, alas he was ignored.

Now we have CERN, the Large Hedron Collidor (LHC) in Switzerland. A gigantic particle accelerator that aims to give physicists answers to questions like what happened at the beginning of the Universe with the Big Bang? (Hello people…Its called the Big Bang, should we really try and understand that through experiment?!) Or other questions like: Are there any other dimensions beyond our own? What is dark matter? And many other fascinating questions of theoretical physicists.

The only problem is it could destroy the World. Not just Switzerland, or Europe or even the Earth but our whole surrounding Sun and planets.

Small problem that one.

How?

Well, the LHC could open a mini black hole that could swallow the Earth, it could release a thing called a strangelet that would act like Vonnegut’s famous Ice Nine and multiply and destroy all surrounding matter. Or other side effects involving major changes to matter and atoms.

Now, apparently it’s very unlikely for this to happen. One scientist said its like winning Lotto three times in a row. Is this the same scientist that said the chances of Life existing on Earth are like winning Lotto every week for a year? Well, the odds are something like that for life existing on Earth. There’s no reason to think that the odds that will snuff us out will be equally long.

The Problem is Science simply will not Think. It will not think that if even the possibility of damaging human beings and Being itself in our galaxy is possible through this infernal machine, it should not go ahead. Who gives a fuck if we find out more about sub atomic particles? Science has given us great material and medical things, but it hasn’t provided one iota of real value or meaning to human existence. If anything it has removed and made impotent any attempt to give human existence meaning.

What knowledge does it give me to know I’m made of atoms and particles or whatever? How does that help any human being live their life? It doesn’t.

Now, probably CERN concerns are unfounded. But the slightest possibility, of what it has the potential to unleash, is a good enough reason to stop it. It’s like some scary 70’s sci fi flick I grew up on.

As Ballard, says “ Its not a good idea to write about the future”. We know… because there may not be one.

CERN flicks the switch and start bashing together things (like gold particles -Alchemy?) at speeds unseen since the time of the Big Bang around October. To be safe move all plans forward to the four or five months left.

Of course, nothing will probably happen…

It will either be a great discovery for unthinking science or human kinds greatest folly? I’m buying lottery tickets. If I win three times in a row. I’m taken the next plane to CERN to stop them…

See story here and here.

See picture below. Its not from some new science fiction movie. That SOB is real. Looks like like an abyss to me. Thus spoke Nietzsche, “When you look into an abyss… remember it also looks back”.