Not really sure, to be honest, what this blog will be about. It may just be a stream of consciousness blog containing my innermost thoughts and feelings, or a description of daily activity, maybe it's just a glorified dairy.
So where do begin?
Well because of the mood that I am in today, I think I will start off with a stream of conscience style post.
So the other night I was reading about the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, according to their website, the aim is To smash protons moving at 99.999999% of the speed of light into each other and so recreate conditions a fraction of a second after the big bang. The LHC experiments try and work out what happened. (http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/)
Well, naturally this got me thinking, if they were able to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, what if they managed to actually recreate a big bang, here on earth, or more particularly, in earth, since the machine is actually underground. What would that mean? Supposing they recreate the Big Bang, would it therefore follow the same evolutionary path as the universe we occupy? What if they recreated a mini universe inside our earth, what if there was a mini Milky Way with a mini solar system just like our own. Would there be a mini Earth? Imagine they inadvertently created a little tiny planet that followed the same evolution as the Earth, people from apes, neanderthals, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Crusades, the Industrial Revolution, Capitalism.
I wonder too, would they have any knowledge that they were inside another world in another universe? Which really begs the question, what does that make us? Maybe Douglas Adams was right, maybe we're just the result of an experiment, the machine used to find the ultimate question of the Universe.
Well that gets us off to a nice start.
Cool. You should read the Science of Discworld (assuming you haven't already read it). Very much along those lines
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