September 11th 2001 changed the way we thought about the day to day world around us. In a single day everything seemed to change, simple basics facets of life were turned inside out. Amazingly we have realised that singular events can indeed change the way we view our world. Will then things be changed globally on the morning of September 11th 2008 seven years to that day when another incredible event has been scheduled for mankind?

On the 10th of September the largest particle accelerator (atom smasher) in the world will be brought on line during a complex series of computer process activations. The circular laboratory runs for seventeen miles under Jura, on the borders of France and Switzerland and is known affectionately as the Large Hadron Collider.  The happy researchers at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) have been waiting several years for this moment of readiness and an air of trepidation has gathered over the worlds scientific community.

There is a pertinent old saying that I will quote before continuing with this article.

 “Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.”

The reason I am rather keen to quote this, is simply to make it very clear that I am well aware I do not fully understand either the technology or theoretical physics involved in the experiments designed for the LHC. My education in regards to advanced physics comes from a mixture of auto-didactic learning’s and a few elements relevant from School and University education. I can only offer a man on the streets view, and a few linked topics that happen to fall within the realms of my greater expertise (general weirdness).

In my last article I touched upon the subject of the Zero Point Field, also known as the Higgs Field, and its place in our cosmology and indeed its interactions with our reality experientially. Well as with any field the ZPF is held to be composed of particles, in this case a highly elusive particle given the name the ‘Higgs Boson Particle’.

The Higgs Boson is currently viewed as hypothetical as there is no hard evidence for its existence. If found it should be a very large particle of a type known as a scalar elementary particle. It would offer data which could explain why photons have no mass whilst W & Z bosons have lots of mass. These elements are responsible for electromagnetism and the so-called weak nuclear force, thus the Higgs Boson would be an important, indeed fundamental, piece in the puzzle that links the two.

So important in fact is the Higgs Boson to advanced theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, that it has been given the rather tongue in cheek nick name, ‘The God Particle’. The reason why this particle is so important that it merits a name hinting at it being the most fundamental particle to all that exists is because it indeed is. If the particle is found it will open up the possibility of proving a theory of everything, indeed it may even lead to the experimentally evidenced existence of higher dimensions. The layman’s explanation for these higher dimensions is that they are very small curled up dimensions hidden with the smallest elements of our universe, really only advanced mathematics describes them meaningfully (and perhaps mysticism).

Its seems almost a remarkable coincidence that just days before the big switch on, another elusive element seems to have been finally confirmed by new evidence. The element I speak of is dark matter, first evidenced convincingly in August 2006 whilst we observed the Bullet Cluster, two colliding clusters of galaxies. Several anomalous factors in the observed happening there were certainly consistent with the existence of dark matter. That said we know that one example is not always enough to convince the entire scientific community.

The convincing second find came in the form of MACSJ0025.4-1222 a cosmological object 5.7 billion light years distant from Earth. Like its predecessor the Bullet Cluster, this object is formed from two collided galaxy clusters. The dark matter was detected as it had separated from the normal matter during the cosmic crunch. The dark matter distorts light passing through it as though many little lenses were floating in the space between the object emitting photons and us. It is this effect that allows us to detect the invisible, normally undetectable, matter.

With rather spectral dark matter now essentially proven to be real, it would seem most timely for the equally elusive Higgs Boson to be made manifest. Whether the process used by the LHC also creates mini black holes, which then reveal hidden dimensions or particles even more exotic than those sought remains to be seen of course. Many of us quite frankly already know that there is a vast aspect of existence that is currently hidden by a veil of human ignorance. The revelations of the Zero Point and Dark Matter will likely be merely humanity scratching the surface. In my opinion, indeed in my experience, much more still remain beyond the veil.            

             

                  

 Incidently the above Taoist symbol with its peculiar similarity to the pictured part of the LHC is called 'Pa Kua'. It represents the 'ever-fluctuating elemental forces of the Universe'. How oddly appropriate for this ancient symbol to turn up in this utterly cosmic experiment. 

As for how this all relates to 2012, well that is perhaps two fold. Firstly the symbol portrayed above contains the symbols of the I-Ching. That ancient Chinese divinatory system has been explained as an ancient calander system ending in the year 2012. The second link between the LHC and 2012 is the possibility of the experiment turning Earth into a pulsar in four years time...2012.

 

 

By Bruce