Re: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

The New York Times article entitled "The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate" discusses a theory put forward by scientists at CERN to explain why the Large Hadron Collider seems to be jinxed. Perhaps the sub atomic particle known as the Higgs Boson is so abhorrent to nature that the universe is conspiring to prevent its creation. Below I have set forth my theory as to why a universe destroying particle might appear to be impossible to make.The multiverse theory proposes that, at every juncture in time where a decision is made, reality branches out into parallel universes in which each of the various possibilities are played out. We find ourselves in the one which is the result of the influence of our choice or chance, hence ( the illusion of ) free will.

If it is possible to create a particle which will destroy the universe, it makes sense to me that the process of destruction will not be like a regular explosion which expands outward through time and space, as this would be acting within the confines of the universe as we know it, and would merely be the destruction of structures within the universe, not of the space/time continuum itself.

I think such a cosmic collapse would, by necessity, implode backward through time causing the universe to cease to exist from the beginning. This would eliminate that particular multiverse back to the moment of it's inevitable destruction, leaving only multiverses in which events had conspired to prevent the creation of the doomsday particle.

The resultant perception would be that every attempt to initiate the particle would be foiled by some random event. I suppose that the harder they try to create the particle the more absurd and unlikely will be the set-backs. Or perhaps as each set-back is overcome then each subsequent attempt to start up the Collider will cause the project (and our universe) to be "set back" to the next most likely preventative event, in reverse chronological order, all the way back eventually to the untimely death of Higgs himself.

My hope is that research on the LHC will reveal the end of time, in the sense of a theoretical proof of the nonexistence of time. Or perhaps the non-uni-directionality of time.

Subsequent technological applications of the science in quantum computing will bring us, not time travel, but at least trans-temporal communication and computation. That will be enough to make everything we know meaningless; a Kurtzweilian (or Kurt Vonnegutian) singularity.

So now (armed with the above Higgs Boson Fate theory) if it the temporal singularity doesn't happen I can explain that it did occur in another parallel universe which we are prevented from experiencing; not by an overly patronizing intelligent designer who manipulates our fate by choosing which of the multiverses we can inhabit, but by a self regulating property of reality itself. ;o)

Happy Fathers' Day! Up with Dads and Down with the Patriarchy!

It's time for Fathers of conscience to rise up against the Patriarchy. Stand by your wives and children, and oppose The Man.

Down with the Deadbeats: from the Abrahamic Uber-Dads in Tehran who hide behind their beards and their riot squads, and the lacy palace Eunuchs of Rome who dictate how we may love, to the Born Again pyramid schemers who are trying to sell us back our Souls.

Why is the Ur-Father so quick to lay his Son upon the Alter of Sacrifice?

Patriarchy breeds weak men who rule from fear. Afraid to look into the eyes of a Woman or a Gay person for dread of what might be reflected there. Afraid that he will die and his children will live. Afraid his life is based on a Lie, that Love is gone and there is no hope of Joy. Afraid of what his Father will do to him when He gets Home.

Dads, any authority you have is loaned to you by your partners and children, not handed down to you from above. Don't abuse it. Happy Fathers' Day to all and a special group hug for all the Children of Abraham.

Theism vs (A)theism and Gnosticism vs (A)gnosticism (and/or Brahma vs. (A)braham)

I think Robert Anton Wilson who first said I am, in general, agnostic; but as pertains to "God" I am decidedly atheist. anyway, I heard it first from Xen Dada Axis (hive).

One can be a Gnostic and Atheist, or Agnostic and a Theist, or a Gnostic and a Theist. Or not.

Abraham was the last, I would tend towards the first, but of course have doubts (see below).

In the shuffle gets lost the meaning of gnosticism.

What does it mean to know?

Think I have faith in knowing, but I don't put too much credence in believing.

Hacking God : In the end most inventions are not used for their intended purpose.

Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred

Unfortunately he is a bit dry, but he could be our Ralph Nader in the battle against Reductionism.

Unlike Dawkins, who often comes off pretty fundamentalist in his own way, Kauffman is truly radical, in that his brand of atheism has a place for awe and respect for the cosmic. As a result, thoughtful theist holdouts won't have to go cold turkey when they realize that God (like everything else) is a metaphor. And we of a scientific bent can uncloset our pagan urges and guiltlessly follow magic as well as logic.

Our reverence of The Sacred need not be thrown out with the holy bath water if it is recognized as a mental tool that can be hacked.

The Big Job

from http://whyifeelcrazy.com:

the best job is a dangerous mission
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

“So we can’t find peace, we can’t 'win', it’s not going to be all right. But that doesn’t have to rob us of purpose; in fact it’s the opposite, it implies a great purpose:

…what each of us must do is cleave to what we find most beautiful in the human heritage - and pass it on. So that one day, one day when this endarkenment exhausts itself, those precious things we’ve passed on will still be alive, and it will be possible for the people of that day to make use of them to construct a life that is a life - the life of freedom, variety, consensual organization, and light and dark, in their proper proportions (whatever they may be).

…that to pass on these precious fragments is our mission, a dangerous mission - that if you were going to volunteer for crucial, hazardous work, work of great importance and risk, this might be the job you drew.

And it isn’t a bad job at all. Actually, it’s the best job.”

[Stolen and brazenly updated: From: WHOLE EARTH REVIEW Winter 1989, page 44 (which is no longer being published) THE AGE OF ENDARKENMENT BY MICHAEL VENTURA]

I concur!! It's the only job!

One of the things that attracts me to chaos theory is that it is the only explanation of the universe that allows for free will.

In a purely deterministic universe our agency is an illusion, since we are merely the products of molecular interactions.

In a purely random universe our actions can not be reliably linked to their consequences.

Only in an unfolding universe, where each moment is created through an iteration of the last, can human agency be accounted for.

So the next phase of reality will be determined by those fragments of the past which we choose to reiterate.

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The Terrible Simplifiers

"The lack of a correspondence between abstraction and reality is all the more significant, since the real world is profoundly complex and contingent and an abstraction is inevitably simple. The terrible simplifiers who love abstractions cannot stand conditions and conventions muddling their perfect, clear theory. If life does not fit the theory, then it is life that has gone awry and must be made to fit. The terrible simplifiers are always perfectly willing, then, to embrace ideological crusades, violence and upheaval to better realise their 'principles'...."
from Eunomia


The promise of violence always follows in the wake of the terrible simplifiers, but the violence to the soul actually occurs at the outset, and sets the stage for the physical violence or coercion. The physical violence is a consequence of the re-barbarization that goes hand in hand with the simplification which sanctions the violence by encouraging man to be less than he is.
from One Cosmos