6.18 – THE GOD PARTICLE (8.15.14)

DISCOVERIES YET TO COME ^[19f]

CERN headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider was heralded as a monumental success when it helped to discover the Higgs boson, or God particle, in 2012. But that was only the beginning. Since then, researchers have embarked on a multi-year project to upgrade what is already the most powerful machine on Earth by retrofitting it with bigger, better, and more efficient systems. When the Large Hadron Collider is activated again in 2015, it will wield at least double the power it did in 2012, and could boast even ten times more by the end of the decade.

“When you look at the size of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, you realize that we really are pushing the limits of technology. The Large Hadron Collider is something like seven times more powerful than anything else that’s existed before. We’ll be even able to get even closer to conditions in time, even closer to the beginning of the big bang.” – Robert H. Frisbee, Ph.D. (Propulsion Systems Engineer, NASA JPL, Ret.)

“The work that is happening right now during the LHC shutdown is to prepare the detectors and the experiments for the big energy step. We are going into even more higher energy, and that means that we are probing deeper, and we can be just around the corner of discovering something which is completely blowing our minds.” – Maria Spiropulu, Ph.D. (Prof. of Physics, CA Inst. of Technology)

“The human race is going to be focusing more energy in a small area than we’ve ever done before. So, we’re looking for a whole new phenomenon.” – John Brandenburg, Ph.D. (Plasma Physicist, Orbital Technologies), (Author, Life and Death on Mars)

The scientists at CERN hope that by increasing the power of the Large Hadron Collider they will not only be able to learn more about the God particle, but also uncover other, perhaps even more profound secrets of the Universe. But some scientists have voiced concerns that the Large Hadron Collider could create a black hole that would swallow up the Earth, set off a massive nuclear explosion, or even form a vacuum bubble that could tip the balance of the entire Universe.

“Perhaps this is a little hubris. And we all know what happens when physicists get full of hubris. But there’s always a little bit of fear when you’re pushing back the frontiers of science. It’s part of the frontier spirit.” – John Brandenburg, Ph.D. (Plasma Physicist, Orbital Technologies), (Author, Life and Death on Mars)

“We have to admit that we don’t know how the Universe started. And as we go into higher and higher energies, we don’t know what we are going to find, because this physics at these levels is an experimental, completely experimental science. We don’t have the complete understanding and description of the Universe that can create this anxiety and fear that we might create something that will end the Universe.” – Maria Spiropulu, Ph.D. (Prof. of Physics, CA Inst. of Technology)

“When we look at the experiments that have been conducted at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider, it may be that humanity is taking its first baby steps towards the actual construction of the Universe. We’re manipulating matter at the subatomic level. And we are literally harnessing the forces of creation themselves.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), (Author, The Source Field Investigations), (The Synchronicity Key)

“The amount of the Universe that we see and know that is part of the standard model of physics is only, like, four percent of the mass of the Universe. We’re going into vast, unknown territory. We’re going to be witnessing events that no human being has ever witnessed before, and energy density scales no human being has ever been able to create before. So, it’s very exciting. Who knows what we’ll find?” – John Brandenburg, Ph.D. (Plasma Physicist, Orbital Technologies), (Author, Life and Death on Mars)

By wielding the incredible power of the Large Hadron Collider, could we one day recreate the big bang to form an entirely new Universe, and at the same time, destroy our own? Or might we instead be reaching the threshold of a new age for mankind? If Ancient Astronauts came to our planet hundreds of centuries ago, perhaps they deliberately planted the seeds of knowledge that would eventually lead us to where we are today. Perhaps finding the so-called “God particle” will allow us to finally answer mankind’s most persistent questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? And the most persistent of all: Are we alone?

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