(my picture is a simulation, and may not be realistic)
An example of unending human vanity, hope in hopelessness; but the hope persists and does not give up. And, in its continuation, it serendipitously finds, discovers, invents something other than what it sets out to seek. Startlingly wondrous because of its newness, its utility to mankind or harm remaining unknown for indefinite periods, by which time it is not even remembered that it should not have been discovered in the first place.
I have counted billions of Euros spent on this project, which is highlighted every few years to ensure its funding, claiming at each such interval a 99.9999 and more nines percentage of success. Even if its main objective is not likely to be achieved, I hope that munificence to mankind in some utilitarian areas would overflow from the 100 metre deep and 27 kilometre circumference of its Large Hadron Collider.
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Yes, it is vanity followed by the basking in the glow of the so called accomplishment.
I would like to draw a parallel between the search for Higgs-Boson particle to couple of other twentieth century inventions. The most famous of them was the Manhattan Project that invented and created Atom bombs with devastating results in human casualty not to mention the dollars that it ate up. I do not remember who it was, but either Einstein or Oppenheimer was repentant over the invention. After the facts. It is always after the facts. Such human interruptions in the name of research or advancements continue even today in Stemcell research and Genetic Engineering. To add a new item, of late, is Drone technology.
Human curiosity, for better or worse, marches on. One can only hope that it is for the betterment. In spite of the censure ship of the word “hope”, by you and me, it will continue to be omnipresent. Curiously, I noticed its use in your statement too.
It is my HOPE that nobody, certainly not you, takes an offence to my writing this.
2 comments:
Bhai,
Yes, it is vanity followed by the basking in the glow of the so called accomplishment.
I would like to draw a parallel between the search for Boson-Higgs particle to couple of other twentieth century inventions. The most famous of them was the Manhattan Project that invented and created Atom bombs with devastating results in human casualty not to mention the dollars that it ate up. I do not remember who it was, but either Einstein or Oppenheimer was repentant over the invention. After the facts. It is always after the facts. Such human interruptions in the name of research or advancements continue even today in Stemcell research and Genetic Engineering. To add a new item, of late, is Drone technology.
Human curiosity, for better or worse, marches on. One can only hope that it is for the betterment. In spite of the censure ship of the word “hope”, by you and me, it will continue to be omnipresent. Curiously, I noticed its use in your statement too.
It is my HOPE that nobody, certainly not you, takes an offence to my writing this.
charu
Correction:
Bhai,
Read Higgs-Boson and not Boson-Higgs.
charu
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