When Political Matters Aren't Twisted Enough, You Need Physics

The researchers at CERN at the Large Hadron Collider take twisted science to dimensions of strange utterly incomprehensible to mortals.  I don't profess to understand the nature of the problems they're trying to solve but I admire tremendously their determination to solve them.  (Science Daily:  Researchers solve the problem of the dimensions of space-time in theories relating to the Large Hadron Collider)

Now you know this is going to get warped.  The evening has not as yet invited a bowl of the ganja since it's necessarily on a restricted use budget but this one calls for it and no telling what effect it may have.

Here goes ...

The theories currently used to interpret the data emerging from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which have so far most notably led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, are poorly defined within the four dimensions of space-time established by Einstein in his Theory of Special Relativity.  In order to avoid the infinities resulting from the calculations that these theories inspire, new dimensions are added in a mathematical trick which, although effective, does not reflect what we now know about our Universe.

- Science Daily

Don't be getting skittish as I don't know what they're doing either and simply, in my simple way, get a bang out of seeing them doing it ... whatever it is.  Even so, we all know what a bitch it can if we get stuck in those infinities, don't we.

Here's some more and this shows not only is my understanding of this limited but it also shows a fair likelihood that's the best it will ever get.

The crux of the issue lies in the fact that it is theoretically possible for particles with zero energy to be produced in LHC collisions, not to be confused with another problematic theoretical outcome of zero particle emissions.  A similar issue arises when two particles are produced in exactly the same direction: they are indistinguishable from a single particle.  Another of the problems with existing theories derives from the need to apply quantum corrections to their calculations, which requires the validity of the theories to be extrapolated to infinite energies, never reached in a particle accelerator.  However, these situations are hard to reconcile with the theory and doing so has a price: the issue of infinity in the four dimensions of space-time. Infinities do not work well with theoretical predictions.

- Science Daily

For the TV science, they're going to at least try to ensure we understand what they're saying and we trust Morgan Freeman won't jerk us around so we all get to that kozmik kumbaya together.  Here at the Rockhouse, we don't care as the coolness for us here is when we don't understand and the reaction is an awestruck, "Holy fuck, what are they doing?"

(Ed:  well, thanks for taking that straight to the guttter!)

Hey, it's a service I provide.  No charge in case you're wondering.

(Ed:  it doesn't look like the ganja changed things too much)

Nope, that's kind of pitiful, isn't it.  How about this:  we eschew the exploitation of an exclamation such as 'holy shit' since there various things we can do with shit and Bedouins use horse and camel dung to make fires in the desert ... but we don't see much claim toward the divinity of shit in that.

However, we see 'holy fuck' as a possible vision even if not so much in me and definitely not when I'm sixty-five.  However, I can visualize Mister Toad saying, "That was such a wild ride it was holy!"

Maybe someone even has said that already somewhere in humanity's decadent sexual experience.

(Ed:  if they didn't before, they will now.  Thanks for that too.)

So I take a humble bow.  Thank you.