Man Made Black Holes

CERN is the leading high energy physics laboratory in the world, their incredibly powerful particle accelerators are an important piece of their resume.

What can be done with particle accelerators? Theoretically, they can create black holes.

I don’t know at what point it sounded like a good idea to create a black hole on Earth, but its more about hypothesizing what could happen.

Nearly half of the world’s particle physicists work on experiments conducted at the CERN facilities, which are located on the border between France and Switzerland. The acronym comes from Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). It was established in 1954, and now has 20 member states.

The World Wide Web was started as a project called ENQUIRE at CERN in 1989. They announced it would be free to everyone on April 30th, 1993.

Currently, CERN is building the Large Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator and a hadron collider that is 26.659 kilometers in circumference and will be located 50 to 175 meters underground [pictures below]. This is the one that is theorized to produce many novel particles including: Higgs Boson, strangelets, magnetic monopoles, supersymmetric particles and Micro Black Holes.

Particle accelerators and “atom smashers” are one and the same. Just like the name says, they are used to create collisions between [altered] atoms – they do this by utilizing electric fields to propel electrically charged particles at high speeds.

The LHC is just one piece of the puzzle. The picture below is of the LHC experiments and the pre-accelerators. Each piece of equipment has to do with particular experiments.

The goal of these experiments as well as particle physics in general, is to find the fundamental building blocks of this universe. A fundamental particle would be something that has no substructure – it is made up of no other particles.

A micro black hole is sometimes categorized under “particle.”

Once we grasp that mass and energy are equivalent, it makes sense to destroy matter in order to release energy. Hence splitting of the atom to make energy. When you pair that information with 1) our belief that black holes are dense points in space and 2) our ability to use particle accelerators –> we have some very interesting results to look forward to.

The “Planck Mass” is believed to be the unit of mass when both general relativity and quantum mechanics simultaneously become important. The Planck mass is very very small.

General relativity is best explained using the analogy of fabric, hence the fabric of spacetime. Take a blanket and stretch all four corners and place a ball in the middle. The fabric “bends.” It is that bend in the fabric that acts like gravity. Think of a marble circling the drain, only if the marble took eons to fall down the drain (eventually the moon will crash into the Earth).

Quantum mechanics is the study of the relationship between “indivisible units of energy” and mass. Think of fundamental particles, but in the sense of fundamental energy. It would be cool to know if the fundamental building blocks of this universe was energy – which is what string theory states.

Energy is clearly important.

The LHC might allow scientists to create a collision that reaches some incredible activation energy at the level of the Planck mass. Basically, there would be a lot of energy in a very small amount of mass. If that happens, we are going to get a whole lot of stuff that we probably couldn’t have predicted.

So we start predicting some the improbable, in all of the fields we barely understand, based on all the information that we think we know.

Start at the conservation of mass – at first glance a black hole don’t make sense. How can something go into a black hole and disappear [in all of its forms] from this universe? Where does it go? How is it not “here” anymore? Etc.

Stephen Hawking put forth a theory in which he predicts that a black hole will emit exact black body radiation, and has since been called Hawking Radiation.

A black body is an object that absorbs all light that falls on it. But, gives off radiation depending on its surrounding temperatures.

Stephen Hawking predicts that a black hole gives off thermal radiation inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole. The bigger the black hole, the less radiation it gives off.

It doesn’t make sense to me, but that is because he made “reliable” calculations far from a black hole in the framework of quantum field theory in curved space time. [thank you Wikipedia]

If a black hole is losing more matter than it is taking in, it would make sense that the black hole will cease to exist. There is a tipping-point. If the mass of a black hole is less than X, we would expect it to eventually evaporate. If the mass of a black hole equals X, we would expect it to stay the same. If the mass of a black hole is greater than X, we would expect that the black hole continue to grow.

Lets go back to the fabric of spacetime. Lets call that ball in the middle of our sheet the sun. If the sun is 780 mm in circumference and 650 grams in weight [regulation basketball], a black hole could be smaller than a speck of sand and weigh more than our actual sun. The tricky part is that black holes can vary in size and mass, but they are probably governed by some function of energy.

It makes sense to conceptualize a black hole as a very massive singular point in space – massive means magnitudes of mass greater than our sun. That is why some might refer to a black hole as a single [super massive] particle.

So how big will the black hole that CERN makes be?

We can predict its mass based on the atoms, ions, etc. we are using to smash together, we also can estimate how much energy will be in that particle. IF they make one, it will most definitely be a micro black hole, and it will be much smaller than X.

It will quickly evaporate… hopefully.

What do we have to gain from all of this?

An outlandish guess is space travel at or near the speed of light.

A better understanding of Our Universe, is almost a given.

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For a list of news on black holes click here.

Genetically Engineered Domesticated Animals

How close are we to wanting a blue eyed baby, clicking a box, and then having a blue eyed baby? Very Close.

An Atlantic Salmon that has deliberately been inserted with a gene from a Rainbow Trout is called a transgenic animal. We could take a specific gene out of a human being and then put it into a test tube baby.

Google “transgenic salmon.”

The seminal ideology behind genetic engineering is both ancient and noble by most accounts.

but once you start, where do you stop?

If the government finds out that your child will have genes that would predispose him towards a life of violent crime, will they force you to genetically alter your child? Would you resist?

Once genetic engineering of human beings begins in mass – the laws, rules, and regulations will quickly follow. The laws would establish not only when you can change your child’s genes, but when the law itself determines your child’s genetics.

I guess it is important who writes the laws.

I file the movie “Gattaca” under Sci-Future.

Currently, we are socially engineered domesticated animals.

Haditha: Changing the Rules of Engagement

Haditha is the first case that forces the American Public to evaluate military counter insurgency combat tactics.

Haditha is in western Iraq near the border of Syria. It was a popular vacation spot before the war. By 2005 it was war torn. The city also provides tactical support to a dam that supplied the region with a lot of energy, making it a strategic military launching point.

Kilo Company was the elite and highly decorated marine unit that was assigned to retake Haditha. The “Thundering Third,” as it was called, was one of the most battle tested cores in the history of the marines, and had recently performed well in the second battle at Falluja.

The marines felt the citizens of Haditha had a seething disdain for the American military troops. They weren’t welcomed as bringers of freedom, instead they were despised as harbingers of death.

Marine Corporal Tim Tardif was told it was going to be bad, but their first night there, they “only heard crickets.”

November 19, 2005 was the day of the incident. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich was in charge of 4 Humvees and 11 marines.

As the unit was moving around Haditha, an improvised explosive device destroyed the 4th Humvee in the caravan and killed Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas.

After looking for the “trigger man” for the IED, they saw a white sedan on the side of the road occupied by 5 men. The soldiers decided they were hostile and after no dialogue could be establish, the occupants were shot and killed.

As that was going on, the marines took small arms fire, which they decided came from a house off the road.

At the end of they day there were 9 wounded marines and Terrazas was dead. On the Iraqi side, there were 24 dead civilians including 7 children under the age of 15. but that was not noteworthy to the soldiers, “it just happens” was what one soldier said on camera.

The initial report read that 1 marine and 15 civilians died from one improvised explosive device. It was an inaccurate press release, but the soldiers did not see it as problematic because “the media usually doesn’t get it right.” The soldiers know the media is trying to Wag the Dog.

Requests for a formal investigation were made by the Haditha City Council. The marines learned a week after the incident that the council asked for the entire incident to be labeled a crime of war and call the killings “executions.”

That led the military to believe that the city council had alliances with insurgents and terrorists. Because if you aren’t “supporting our troops,” you must be a terrorist.

A human rights organization happened to be in Haditha at the time, and they were quick to make a film of the deaths. A movie based on war crimes always gets attention.

Tim McGurk, a writer for Time Magazine, was introduced to this video and the entire situation became obviously suspicious.

McGurk made a formal inquiry to the military and got an incredulous response deriding the video as typical terrorist propaganda.

Within a month there was a full investigation ready to go.

Thomas Betro, who is the head of Naval Criminal Investigation Service, said this investigation had more manpower devoted to it than any other in the past 25 years.

The Iraqis wanted to be part of the investigation, but the United States didn’t allow it.

What really put this into the main stream was Congressman John Murtha. He brought it up on May 17, 2006 on television. He went from CNN to Fox News talking about shit he didn’t know. He spammed the term “cold blooded murder” and turned Haditha into a launching pad for political rhetoric.

This war, this election, this false democracy is all about political rhetoric.

A pervasive feeling, from the ground troops to the highest level of the American command, is that Iraqi lives are not as important or valuable as the lives of American troops.

According to everything being done in Iraq, that is true. Relatively routine was, and still is, the deaths of innocent Iraqi women and children.

This is a problem because it makes sense [to many people] to value your nation’s soldiers more than the women and children of a perceived hostile nation.

On December 21, 2006, the U.S. military charged eight Marines in connection with the deaths of 24 innocent Iraqi people at Haditha. Four of the Marines, Frank Wuterich, Sanick de la Cruz, Justin Sharratt and Stephen Tatum were accused of unpremeditated murder. Tatum was further charged with negligent homicide and assault, while de la Cruz was also charged with making a false statement.

The fact that an investigation was purposely delayed brought questions to the desk of the people in charge.

Dereliction of duty is pretty bad. It means that one willfully, through negligence or culpable inefficiency, fails to perform one’s expected duties.

The battalion commander, Jeffrey Chessani, was charged with one count of violating a lawful order and two counts of dereliction of duty. First Lieutenant Andrew Grayson was charged with obstruction of justice, dereliction of duty, and making a false statement, while Captain Randy Stone and Captain Lucas McConnell were charged with dereliction of duty. Stone also faced an additional count of violating a lawful order.

The Marine Corps dropped all charges against Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz in exchange for immunity during testimony. Seven other Marines involved in the incident have also been granted immunity.

The court proceedings are going on at camp Pendleton right now.

What they are trying to figure out is if the marines acted appropriately under the then Current Rules of Engagement.

After the 5 males in the white sedan had been neutralized, Wuterich’s people had to address the small arms fire.

The soldiers established that the small arms fire came from a near by home. That is when things got more than dicey. Wuterich, the marine in charge, was asked what he said before clearing House 1. He claims he said something like “shoot first and ask questions later.”

One of the soldiers claims that he heard the sound of an AK-47 “racking” (being readied to fire) from inside the home. He threw a grenade in the house. When a grenade goes off, visibility goes to shit, nothing more than targets can be made out. Each target was taken out. They went from room to room, not entering more than 2-3 steps into any room. House 1 was cleared.

After clearing the first house, Wuterich acknowledged that women and children were dead. Once collateral damage has been discovered, it does not mean the threat has been eliminated or even diminished. The defense argues that there should be no slow down in forward progress. That is why the marines went on to House 2 and killed more innocent people.

The marines declared the entire house as hostile. When they did that, their actions become justifiable.

Many interesting questions have been raised.

Do you need to positively identify a “target” in order to open fire?

What happens when collateral damage is observed in the middle of combat?

The definitions of words like hostile, target, Torture and even “danger” have being debated and redefined.

Many obvious questions have been put to the side.

Why are so many innocent people dead?

How can we value one life over another?

None of the soldiers are charged with murder.

Important questions have been ignored.

What is war?

Is it ever justified?

These young soldiers have the moral authority of judge, jury and executioner. They have to calculate and balance maintaining troop safety, mission accomplishment, threat level from the enemy, collateral damage, and every single aspect of the situation in a split second.

They have an impossible job: To kill people, and justify it.

It would be a much better world if we did not have any rules of engagement.

The gunmen was off his meds!

Steven P. Kazmierczak, the shooter at Northern Illinois University, referenced The Virginia Tech Massacre. I would label these suicidal-homicidal kids as ‘wannabe’ Martyrs. In death, they tried to spread certain ideas, bring attention to specific issues, cause some sort of societal change, or just spread their own pain and memories.

A skinny white kid dressed in black, wielding a shotgun and three glocks, used the faculty entrance to get into a geology class with 150 stadium style seats. He stood up on a table at the front of the class and fired indiscriminately, 22 people were shot, 6 killed, including the gunmen who took his own life with a bullet to the head. The fact that he was a sociology graduate student should raise more eyebrows than Virginia Tech.

Seung-Hui Cho [Virginia Tech shooter] and now Steven P. Kazmierczak from Illinois wanted to spread Memes.

Steven P. Kazmierczak was a good student with good grades and was considered to be an intelligent person by many. The Chicago Tribune reported that the school honored the gunman two years ago for his research on the U.S. prison system, including a study of self-inflicted wounds among prisoners

The title of CNN’s article is “Police: Illinois Campus gunman reportedly off medication.” Fuck you CNN. Fuck you Drug Companies.

ADHD is a gross way to pump intelligent kids full of drugs.

They “discovered” a new “disease” and are calling it Oppositional Authoritarian Disease. When a kid contradicts a teacher or talks back to his parents for being bigots, they will now diagnose that child with OAD.

They will pump 6 year old children full of ritalin and adderall and any other drug Big-Pharma thinks it can make a profit off of.

MKULTRA.

CNN gave a 2 hour time slot to “Special Investigations Unit: The Criminally Insane.” I titled the post I wrote about it: “CNN: Criminally Inane,” I still think that is clever.

A martyr is nothing more than someone spreading ideas [memes] in death.

I can’t help but think I will be misinterpreted. Let me clarify that Justifying Murder Is Defending Stupidity. I am by no means justifying anyone else’s actions, I am only trying to understand why these [intelligent] Human Beings did what they did.

Unfortunately, like in the case of Theodore Kaczynski, the focus is put on the death, tragedy, and the gruesome facts of their actions. I read multiple accounts claiming there was no motive, I heard multiple people asking for my prayers, and saw videos of mothers crying “Why!?”

It is the forth shooting at a U.S. education establishment within a week. Last Friday, a woman shot dead two fellow students before killing herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tennessee, a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a student on Monday. A 15-year-old was shot at a junior high school in California on Tuesday.

American Society is not doing well. That fact is hardly debatable, that is what I interpret their motives as. “Wake up!!”

Seung-Hi Cho [isn't it strange to reference these people by their names?] left massive amounts of media to explain why he committed indiscretional murder. I am sure most people only saw his angry Non-Coherent video, and judged him to be a crazy.

He sent a media package to NBC. Searching through the internet I could not find a kilobyte of information that was in his own words. If you search you might come across this paragraph on NPR citing the fact that it happened, but not much else can be found.

During the April 24, 2007 edition of the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC News President Steve Capus stated NBC decided to show two minutes of 25 minutes of video, seven of 43 photographs, and 37 sentences of 23 pages of written material and 5 of the 23 PDF files that were last modified at 7:24 a.m.

Media make Cho into whatever they want us to see.

He was crazy, but he still made some points that the media did not address whatsoever. NPR had a few clips from Cho describing the materialistic stupidity that surrounded him.

How can I possibly agree with Seung-Hi Cho or Theodore Kaczynski on anything? Because I heard what they had to say!! I did not just watch CNN and the other crap that is on television.

I did not get riled up by the issues of gun control and racism. Symptoms that this society is exhibiting indicate deep problems. Racism and Prejudice being prime symptoms of a blatantly Stupid society. Uncontrollable drug use, sex, and violence being reactions to a flawed Materialistic system.

Let me refocus.

The media takes away logic and discourse, and replaces it with black and white. You are either with us or against us; you are either for homicidal maniacs or against them. We should not try to understand this kid, just like we should not try to understand any of the other worldly problems that the media shelters American Consumers from.

Industrial Society and its Future. That is the title of the manifesto Theodore Kaczynski wrote. Kaczynski sent a letter on April 24, 1995 to The New York Times, promising “to desist from terrorism” if the Times or a similarly respected news journal would publish his manifesto, it was published, and I read it.

The Unabomber graduated from Harvard at the age of 20, then received a Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. His dissertation won awards, “I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 people in the country understood or appreciated it”, said Maxwell O. Reade, a retired math professor who served on Kaczynski’s dissertation committee.

Technology and society have made it very easy for us to sustain ourselves [food, water, shelter]. This leads to a lot of free time. Free time leads to boredom, which leads to a lot of things including excessive pleasure-seeking, overeating, low self-esteem, guilt, anxiety, sleep disorders, and eating disorders.

Does that sound like a Big-Pharma commercial to you? 2 Trillion dollars from the federal budget Each Year goes towards health care [the overall United States budget is about 14 Trillion dollars a year]. 33% of that 2 Trillion dollars goes FOR PROFIT to Big-Pharma and the the health insurance companies. FOR PROFIT.

They are already pumping 6 year old children full of ritalin and adderall and any other drug Big-Pharma thinks it can make money off of. If you did not appreciate The Constant Gardener, you should watch it again.

Students are scared to go to class.

Pill Popping, Ingrained Fear and obedience to the High Definition Propaganda Panel make us nothing more than Domesticated Animals.

Maybe we should pump all the Steven P. Kazmierczaks and Seung-Hi Chos full of drugs and sedate them into non-existence. But who discovers the unstable, determines the symptoms, and distributes the treatments?

I am sure Big-Pharma is already on top of that.

The World Agenda… According to Israel

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture titled “The Impact of the Middle East on the Global Agenda: A View from the U.N.,” it was held in Dodd Hall at UCLA and was hosted by the student group Bruins for Israel.

Dan Gillerman was the guest speaker. Gillerman has been the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations since 2003. He was introduced as a successful businessman making the jump to public service.

Gillerman opened with a joke about how his father would be proud, and his mother would believe every word of the “gracious introduction.” I must admit he is a funny guy. He told a story about someone who fell asleep during a lecture he was giving… he asked “sleeping beauty’s” neighbor to wake him up, but the neighbor responded with “you put him to sleep, you wake him up!”

One of his self proclaimed “greatest accomplishments” as a member of the United Nations was the inception of “Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

He pandered to the crowd as he praised UCLA for academic excellence, referenced Lew Alcindor, and hoped UCLA “trounces” USC in the upcoming athletic event.

Gillerman then shifted gears and became serious, “The world is facing one of the most ominous times in history.”

He started with Pakistan and recalled a conversation he had with Benazir Bhutto, he claimed Israel has been searching for allies to promote peace.

He quickly moved to spreading fear. Claiming and reclaiming there were many “truly existential threats.” Specifically naming Iran as a “rogue and dangerous nation.” He made more than a few references to their nuclear program.

Israel says that Iran may have a nuclear weapon by 2009, but other intelligence agencies say it may “early in the next decade.”

Gillerman is on record saying that Israel does not have nuclear weapons. Check out this interview he gave on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it is both hilarious and stupidifying.

Israel does not like Iran for many reasons. A very important one being that Iran supports Hezbollah, which is whom Israel fought a war with in the summer of 2006 in Lebanon.

From Gillerman’s lecture I learned that Israel wants the United States to fight Iran. I also learned that Israel will shamelessly deploy its United Nations Ambassador to University Campuses in order to spread fear and threats of nuclear holocaust to gain support for another war.

I thought it was going to be a thought provoking discussion. I was wrong.

I do agree that Israel is in a predicament, surrounded by hostile nations, but promoting war with Iran under the false title of “The Impact of the Middle East on the Global Agenda: A View from the U.N.” is both gross and very far from the truth… similar to Israel’s claim that it does not possess nuclear weapons.

My problem with the lecture was not the fact that it was war mongering, because that has become common place — It is the fact that Israel claims war with Iran is part of the world’s agenda.