Photography: The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN by Image Editor

I haven’t written here for a while, (but I have some plans to do more blogging and get a new blogging setup going, after all blogging is good for you! ) But I found that a topic got started on a forum about a previous experience I had (that I wrote about here)

A comment on that forum thread reminded me about the “Large Hadron Collider” which is a giant experimental physics machine/facilty that basically takes the tiniest particles known to man and makes them collide with each other at near light speed in hopes of discovering even tinier particles. If they find what has been dubbed “The God Particle” then it would be considered a major breakthrough in physics.

On the other hand, there are some concerns that this experiment could create “tiny black holes” or other side effects that could potentially wipe out the entire planet. So, these concerns obviously make this experiment a big event.

From Wikipedia:

Concerns have been raised that performing collisions at previously unexplored energies might unleash new and disastrous phenomena. These include the production of micro black holes, and strangelets, potentially resulting in a doomsday scenario.

What makes this even more interesting is the time that the first collisions are scheduled to take place is around the same date that a crazy (I hope) guy I met last year predicted the end of the world to be – August 2, 2008

Again from Wikipedia:

The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later.

I don’t know the exact date of the first collisions but according to this it would be in August 2008.

I’m going to predict that on August 2, 2008 and the preceeding days after we’ll all be living life as usual. (After all what do I have to lose with this prediction, if it’s right, I’ll be hailed as wise, and if it’s wrong, nobody will be around, so it can’t be rubbed in my face lol). I remember we all thought the end was surely going to come when the clock struck midnight of December 31, 1999, but now almost ten years later, the end hasn’t come yet. I do believe that it is near but how near or how far, only God knows. (Matthew 24:36)

The LHC is a very interesting project and I hope that whoever is in charge knows better that to risk earth and humanity, if there truly is a significant risk. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. But I thought it all made for an interesting blog post as I’ve been fascinated by the LHC project since I first heard about it a while back. I certainly hope that it isn’t a doomsday scenario but at least I’ll have a month to play with my new iPhone 3g w/ GPS! (JK)

The End…

UPDATE (6/30/2008): Accorting to Gizmodo there is no need to fear a Report Confirms Large Hadron Collider Will Not Spawn Doomsday Scenario, End World As We Know It . Also the LHC will fire up sooner than August (lhcountdown.com)

Is The Large Hadron Collider… The End?…

Photography: The end of the world by gadl

I wouldn’t normally choose to write about this, but I met an interesting person last Sunday. This person was just like any other half sane stranger you might meet in the greater Los Angeles area. Except he had a greater knowledge than most of Bible passages, specifically prophecies and symbolism for the end of the world. He told me that the world would end on August 2, 2008 and within 6 days from then, not a soul would be alive on the planet. If that wasn’t an odd enough claim, the thing that really made him stick out was that he said he was the “Son of Man” and that God would soon come and inhabit his body and begin to rule the world (or something like that) from him. Basically, that he was or would soon be God.

 I’ve read that it is not uncommon for someone with mental problems to believe they are God, but this is the first time someone has tried to tell me that (and he did seem to sincerely believe everything he was telling me). They say it has to do with the ego. It goes something like “each individual is the biggest thing in their own world.” So since we are all the biggest thing in our own little world, when some things backfire in the mental area, one may conclude he (or she) is God somehow in someway. It sounds like a reasonable theory to me. 

 As far as the end of the world is concerned, I believe it’s near, but as close as August 2, 2008? Well, actually it is possible that it could be sooner than that. Jesus said…

Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

And with things like the Burma massacre and worse going on in the world today, it sure seems like the end of the world. If I was in Burma about to be massacred, I know I would be feeling like it was the end of the world.

The End Of The World

Photography: [ desire for freedom ] by [ chango ]

Halloween is full of candy and costumes some innocent, some not so innocent. But it is not a Holiday really. In some religion some where at some time it may have been a holy day. But now, it is really an unholy day. Celebrating death, destruction, hell, blood, hurt, and all morbid and perverted things, I don’t see how it could be considered holy. That is why I don’t celebrate halloween.

Unfortunately, the true concept of a holy day is being lost in American and modern culture. While we have many holidays, so many people treat them like they have nothing to do with God and holiness, sometimes even doing the most unholy things on those holy days. And as far as the economic aspect of it, a holiday is a great day for marketers and retailers, because sales are up. Christmas in America for example is one of the largest sales seasons. But whether or not the ones making the profit believe in or care about Jesus “making himself of no reputation” and being born into this world as a baby, they care about Christmas, the holy day, as time to cash in on. So to many, it’s only holy in terms of the almighty dollar.

But even as far as Christmas goes, it wasn’t necessarily the day Jesus was born. And the observance of it wasn’t sactioned by God in the bible. It is celebrated by believers out of gratitude and tradition.

I’m gonna stop here, but I just wonder what it would be like to live in a culture where a holy day was truly regarded in the hearts and minds of all the people as such.

October is coming (and the unholiday, Halloween)