Time, death and the universe

[IAN 2411]

Why do humans ask answers to the unexplainable?

Why do we need to know why and how this supposedly big bang took place?

Does it really matter that the clocks go forward or backward? Or what about when we pick something out of a line we go left to right? Dates go forward in their count, age does the same thing, and the reason it is done that way is because we want it to. The mortal made the words and the literate people wrote it for prosperity. It is the natural thing to do that is planted in our brains, but when scientists question this normality, I wonder if they have found their correct vocation in life.

Is it going to change things? Does anyone other than these people getting paid by tax payers really give a damn when the big bang was? The answers when found out might just be more frightening that the not knowing. However, it will be too late then because these same pratts will have published in the Scientific Journal for all to read that infinity is a myth and the end really is just around the corner. [Good on them]

Then you have the fools that are sending atoms round in circles so that collide just to see what takes place. What’s the reason for this? Answer knowledge. Yea right, so it causes a black hole or the world as we know it implodes very clever but dangerous people. They are playing with the world of the unknown with the world that does not belong solely to them. Is this experiment going to help the world, no I doubt it? It is most probably being done because they have x amount of £/$ to spend and damn all else to do with their sad lives. They have spent more on that damn machine than the UK borrowed a few months back, and all they have achieved is a few pretty colours on a plasma screen that they all probably went home to jerk off over. I now do mean... “God help the human race, because they surely do need it.”

Is there a life after death? Well I really do hope so because there are a few people about that I must come back and haunt. I would hate to know that there really is a hell and that’s where we are all bound. Just think, last week ignorant and this week we have the knowledge that when we die we are going to be whipped until infinity [that we still have] while feeding the fires of hell. Just think of the anarchy and noise of the knowing screams, when twenty thousand old people[Of the Vanilla population] are about to die worldwide every day as they plead for a few more years. Then on the other extreme there is [the BDSM family standing naked at the end of the bed shouting, "Bring it on"]. No I believe in certain circumstances ignorance is a blessing, and this whole thread is far too spooky.

Be well IAN 2411

[Thorne]

Why do humans ask answers to the unexplainable?

So we can explain them, of course!

Why do we need to know why and how this supposedly big bang took place?

Why not? Don't you know where and when you were born? If you're one of those who does not, wouldn't you like to know?

Does it really matter that the clocks go forward or backward? Or what about when we pick something out of a line we go left to right? Dates go forward in their count, age does the same thing, and the reason it is done that way is because we want it to. The mortal made the words and the literate people wrote it for prosperity.

Yes, these are all cultural phenomena, and have nothing to do with the NATURE of time, only in how we perform the record keeping. But why do all the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction? Why does the sun keep burning, keeping us alive? Don't you think this kind of question is important? Or at least, interesting?

Is it going to change things? Does anyone other than these people getting paid by tax payers really give a damn when the big bang was?

I imagine there were those who questioned Pasteur's experiments, especially when he infected milk maids with cow pox. Yet without that kind of experiment we would not have a better understanding of germ theory, and we would still be dying of vaccine-preventable diseases. Just because we may not be able to define a tangible purpose for gaining knowledge doesn't mean we won't develop some purpose.

The answers when found out might just be more frightening that the not knowing.

Unquestionably! The answers are almost ALWAYS more frightening than not knowing. That's why people make up feel-good explanations for things rather than try to find out the truth. Personally I'd rather KNOW the truth than carry on mumbling into my soup about how wonderful it all is, only to have it smack me in the face later on.

However, it will be too late then because these same pratts will have published in the Scientific Journal for all to read that infinity is a myth and the end really is just around the corner. [Good on them]

Does that idea scare you? Why? Again, I'd rather know that the end was coming, so I could prepare myself for it.

Then you have the fools that are sending atoms round in circles so that collide just to see what takes place. What’s the reason for this? Answer knowledge.

But without this kind of knowledge, understanding the basic forces that make the universe work, we wouldn't be having this conversation on computers, or cell phones. Without the search for knowledge we would still be sitting around the fire in our caves, trembling at the howling of the wind, living out our short but violent lives in fear and ignorance.

Yea right, so it causes a black hole or the world as we know it implodes very clever but dangerous people. They are playing with the world of the unknown with the world that does not belong solely to them.

Yeah, yeah. And television was going to corrupt our children. And pornography turns men into rapists. Fairy stories to frighten the gullible.

Is this experiment going to help the world, no I doubt it?

Who knows? One thing for sure, if you DON'T do the experiment it definitely WON'T help the world.

“God help the human race, because they surely do need it.”

If there were a god he could just instill all this knowledge into us, and we wouldn't have to do the experiments. But your God wasn't even bright enough to inform his chosen people that it might be a good idea to wash their fucking hands before they ate!

I would hate to know that there really is a hell and that’s where we are all bound. Just think, last week ignorant and this week we have the knowledge that when we die we are going to be whipped until infinity [that we still have] while feeding the fires of hell.

But wouldn't it be nice to actually KNOW that there is no hell? That it was all a lie told by evil people to control the ignorant? Do you know how many people actually live out their lives in terror of doing something stupidly silly that will send them off to hell, because it might offend their "loving" god?

No I believe in certain circumstances ignorance is a blessing, and this whole thread is far too spooky.

I have to disagree. Ignorance is NEVER a blessing. And this is far from spooky.

[leo9]

Is this experiment going to help the world, no I doubt it? It is most probably being done because they have x amount of £/$ to spend and damn all else to do with their sad lives. They have spent more on that damn machine than the UK borrowed a few months back, and all they have achieved is a few pretty colours on a plasma screen that they all probably went home to jerk off over. I now do mean... “God help the human race, because they surely do need it.”

The last major breakthrough in quantum physics led to transistors, microchips, solar electric panels, LEDs and a great many other things you probably imagine were the work of some hard-headed engineer working for some corporate research lab. And nobody knew in advance that any of this would come from what looked like blue-sky pure research (or as you might have put it, throwing money down the drain.)

Will CERN produce some breakthrough that will save the world (e.g. a practical recipe for microfusion)? Probably not, but the one thing that's certain is that if we don't do the research we'll never know.