Just as IBM
stands for International Business Machines, GOD stands for the Grand Omnipotent
D.N.A. The Grand Omnipotent DNA is the
system of the universe, just as your DNA is the system or blueprint of your
individual being. So, GOD is the system
of the universe and you Atheists might as well throw in the towel. After all, there is a system.
“Dark
Matter” is the scientific terminology for “we don’t understand it.” The formulas that deal with dark matter are
constantly changing, being modified and none move to the level of
scientific law. Twenty years from now, many scientists will
laugh at today’s scientific theories.
There is nothing wrong with that.
I applaud a belief system that corrects itself as it accumulates
knowledge. Too bad that our most popular
belief systems don’t do that.
Enough
reason (anti-religious babble). Our free
market system and uber-capitalism is bringing an end to our society. I don’t wish to sound like Chicken-Little,
but we are running out of fresh water. In
California 2,700 farms have been threatened, by the state, to stop allowing the pumping of river water to irrigate
their crops. This short term bandage
will help Californians with their bathing, drinking and landscaping, but it
will raise the cost and lower the availability of food, in California and all
over the nation. How could this
happen? We have known about the water
shortage in the Southwest and elsewhere for decades. We presently have the technology to solve the
problem. It is called desalinization. An atomic aircraft carrier produces 400,000
gallons of clear water from sea water a day.
Saudi Arabia and Sydney, Australia both get their water from the
sea. Desalinization can be powered by
solar energy, without polluting the air or using up fossil fuel. Then why aren’t there modern desalinization
plants strategically located along our ocean and gulf coastlines? Well, our utility companies are generally
large corporations. Their decisions are
not based on the common good, but on quarterly profits and presently it is
cheaper to pull fresh water from ground water and rivers than to build and operate
desalinization facilities. This will of
course change with improved technology and scarcity of available clear water,
but short term profitably will still not call for the capitalization to build
the facilities. Sorry you utility
stockholders, all utilities need to be nationalized. They are a natural monopoly or oligarchy and
neither works well in a “free market” system.
“Give me water, or give me death”.
A reasonable quote and so true.
Where does
G.O.D. come into the picture? Well,
presently we and many other nations of the world are spending huge sums of
national wealth on studying the Higgs Boson, commonly referred to as “The God
Particle”. The budget for this program
is 5.1 billion dollars. It is the study
of a particle that exists two dimensions away from our awareness. It is a sub-atomic particle. Our transgression into the atomic world has
thus far given us a dangerous source of energy with unmanageable byproducts and
a weapon system that we have used to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and is
scheduled to murder many more and perhaps to end civilization as we know
it. I think we would be better off
staying in our own dimension. Below the
atomic dimension, lives the sub-atomic dimension and this is where the God
particle resides. The Higgs Boson has
126 times the mass of a proton. Not
important to you and me, but it is a balancing factor involved in the gravity
of our universe. The experimentation on
Higgs Boson involves firing the particle, at the speed of light, down a 17mile
tunnel, into another Higgs Boson. The
exact result of the collision is a bit of an unknown. One unlucky quantum fluctuation, or a change
in energy, could trigger a process called, “quantum tunneling”. This quantum fluctuation would likely cause a
chain reaction that will destroy the universe.
Not to worry. There will be no
pain. The “God Particle” will simply
turn off your lights.
You live in
a democracy. It isn’t presently working. Did you ever vote to use tax dollars to
support Higgs Boson research and facility construction rather than on
desalinization research and facilities?
Do you have any real interest in Higgs Boson? What are the benefits? For that matter, what are the benefits of sending
a man to Mars, as opposed to desalinization of water or improvements in
education, or improvements in healthcare?
We have limited funds and that implies choices. Yes, I love science and the possible increase
in knowledge that it brings. But when
the benefit is to the scientist and not to the population in general, then I
want a vote in how my tax dollars are spent.
I will vote for vocational and preschool education over playing two dimensions
out of my awareness into a realm that may usher in the end of our
universe. And, let’s solve the water
shortage. It is time to get out the
pitchforks and torches.
Cheers, Old
Buz
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