Wouldn’t you be just a tiny bit worried if you saw this trundling down your street?
Bee at Backreaction explains why it’s not so scary, unless you’re an elementary particle who is self-conscious about your weight. There’s a movie, too.
Plato, atheists don’t worship anyone. And if you think you are talking about Hinduism, please read a textbook on it before you do.
Chinmaya Sheth
Plato, sorry if I came on a bit strong. All I was saying in #1 is that some people prefer to use the concept just rest mass. The word religion got in there just to continue the theme of the title of the post .
stevem
Reminds me of that rediculous Woody Allen film where a giant breast–created by a mad scientist of course–terrorizes the countryside.
http://backreaction.blogspot.com Stefan
stevem,
that’s what I was also thinking, thanks that I am not the only one
Btw, I came across the photo in a German Magazine (Stern) that my mother reads and ‘collects for me’ (meaning, if I am visiting her I find about 30 issues on my desk). It’s kind of depressing though that besides the name of the experiment they didn’t write anything about the science behind it (thus my post). Best,
Some elevate the sun to gamma, or even, the moon. I guess it’s how scientists like to look at it, once they have another perspective about it. How John Bahcall may have looked at it after spending so much time in research?
Overlord’s of science
Plato:
As a scientist, you know your place in the world. Yet, you dream of such “fantastical stories.” About things travelling through the little towns in Europe, as if, seeing the “Overlords of Science.” Like some futuristic God making it’s way through the town of some primitive era on earth. “Shocked people” looking from windows, as this enormous object in the “war of the worlds,” has finally come upon us.
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About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
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