Along the way the Higgs
boson achieved a notoriety rare for abstract physics. To the eternal dismay of
his colleagues, Leon Lederman, the former director of Fermilab, called it the
“God particle,” in his book of the same name, later quipping that he had wanted
to call it “the goddamn particle.”
***
July
4, 2012.
It’s
about to rain in this “Sun City”.
I’ve
been listening to rain songs, between eating this and that, and watching the
news about forest fires, the weather, war, and something called the God Particle.
Scientists
believe that they have caught the falling star (wrong metaphor, but it sounded
good) that will tell them how the universe got started, but they should
probably devote more time to figuring out how to slow down the universe’s
demise.
Of
course, this is hyperbole de moi.
Neither
political party, nor any nation, has the power to kill the universe, let alone
a galaxy; but Earth is on the chopping block.
Here
are just a few threats:
Climate
change.
Drones.
Charlie
Sheen.
Face-eating
cannibals.
Asteroids.
Madonna.
Nuclear
disasters (of peace and war).
And last
but not least:
Extraterrestrials!
Please
forward some of your own threats…before it’s too late.
IT’S THE OIL STUPID!
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