The Large Hadron Collider has been cooled down to its operating temperature and low energy proton beams are expected to collide in the last half of November. This will be the start of something spectacular. Hopefully we'll 'see' the Higgs particle to verify the existence of the theoretically proposed Higgs fields.
I started off my walk this morning to the dulcet tones of Townes van Zandt singing "Freight Train". Which reminded me that of all the drugs of which I have partaken (partook?), cocaine is the only one I consider evil. I've never done heroin but the danger of an overdose aside, it is probably psychologically benign. I could be wrong here. I finished the walk to Emmy Lou Harris singing "Satan's Jewel Crown". Diametrically opposed to evil. Beautiful and elegant.
The weather has been very changeable over the last few days. One day it was a wintry cold and rainy and the very next day the temperature went to 95 degrees. And the following day it was in the 70's. This morning was pleasantly warm and severe clear. Go figure.
The book by Leonard Susskind is very interesting. He posits that mathematical constants in the universe we live in are very demanding to assure the existence of life but refuses to accept the existence of a supernatural power to get those values. He reminds us that we may live in a limited part of the Universe with it's own values of the constants. Very much like Lisa Randall's explanation but from a slightly different perspective.
Confirmation assures me that we're all on this flight together.
Dick
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