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la_belle_laide) wrote2006-09-14 11:43 pm
la_belle_laide) wrote2006-09-14 11:43 pm
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RHIC
So for a while I've been a big fan of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab. (It's the hugest RHIC at this time, but rumor has it CERN's one is going to be even bigger. IIRC, didn't Dan Brown write in Angels and Demons that CERN already had one?) So anyway, I am tiny part science geek, though I don't often talk about it because I don't know enough to talk well, and that science geek part of me loves the RHIC and loves the fact that it is on Long Island.
The hippie in me, though, who likes everything to be all natural all of the time etc., is terrificallly afraid of the RHIC and doesn't think that there should even be one. Do we really need to be messing around like this? says Earth Mother Hippie.
Science geek says, STFU! They can make a black hole!
Earth Mother hippie points to the paragraph on that page where it says, Hey, look, the RHIC works, because it didn't destroy the Earth like it could have! She points to where it says that the RHIC could have torn the fabric of space and time and could have formed a strangelet which would turn all matter into a mass of quarks.
Science geek laughs in Earth Mother Hippie's face because she thinks, What a way to go! And quarks are like the best matter ever!
Earth Mother Hippie points to the bottom of that page where it says that some have hypothesized that strangelets were responsible for some earthquakes, and earthquakes are never good.
Science Geek's jaw hits the floor.
All of me thinks that Long Island is the most interesting place in the entire world. There are just parts of me that disagree why it is so interesting, and when they fight, they fight violently and the rest of me can't sleep.
The hippie in me, though, who likes everything to be all natural all of the time etc., is terrificallly afraid of the RHIC and doesn't think that there should even be one. Do we really need to be messing around like this? says Earth Mother Hippie.
Science geek says, STFU! They can make a black hole!
Earth Mother hippie points to the paragraph on that page where it says, Hey, look, the RHIC works, because it didn't destroy the Earth like it could have! She points to where it says that the RHIC could have torn the fabric of space and time and could have formed a strangelet which would turn all matter into a mass of quarks.
Science geek laughs in Earth Mother Hippie's face because she thinks, What a way to go! And quarks are like the best matter ever!
Earth Mother Hippie points to the bottom of that page where it says that some have hypothesized that strangelets were responsible for some earthquakes, and earthquakes are never good.
Science Geek's jaw hits the floor.
All of me thinks that Long Island is the most interesting place in the entire world. There are just parts of me that disagree why it is so interesting, and when they fight, they fight violently and the rest of me can't sleep.