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Billions for a Boson -- The Absurdity of Big Science
Billions of dollars have been spent searching for a hypothetical particle, the elusive Higgs Boson. If only a fraction of this money had been diverted to exotic energy research, we might have averted the present energy crisis.
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by Hank Mills
with Sterling
D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
I like it when new scientific discoveries are made. However, when discoveries come at a huge price and do not result in practical breakthroughs that can help our world avoid a collapse, I become cynical.
We've heard of $435 hammers (Washington
Post) or $1 million postage fees for two 19-cent washers (Bloomberg); and Sterling tells a story about a guy on his intentional community project who was using a large trackhoe with a chain to haul a small 5kW generator that could be towed by hand.
It seems to me that an institutionalized example of such a ridiculous project and waste of finite resources is the search for the Higgs Boson, a hypothetical sub-atomic particle. To find this particle and answer other questions about the universe, the Large Hadron Collider was built. This huge piece of equipment composed of a seventeen mile long accelerator ring of superconducting magnets, comes with a price tag of at least ten billion dollars.
Today, the Geneva based organization that manages the collider, CERN announced that they may have caught a glimpse of the particle, which they estimate to contain a mass of around 125 gigaelectron volts (GeV). They say they will need more observations to draw any conclusions.
(National
Geographic)
In Physics, the electron volt (symbol eV; also written electronvolt) is a unit of energy equal to approximately 1.602Χ10−19 joule (J). By definition, it is the amount of energy gained by the charge of a single electron moved across an electric potential difference of one volt.
So 125 GeV would be 2x10−8 J
This quest is important to many scientists, because in their opinion, this particle may explain what gives sub-atomic particles mass. It is sometimes called "The God Particle." To learn more about the Higgs Boson, check out the following
video.
Given his jaded view of certain controlling elements within present governments and academia, Sterling guesses that the Hadron collider is an expensive research project that can be passed off as a public expense, but that the black budget, military-industrial-complex factions may be the only ones to substantively benefit from the advanced knowledge gained, having developed anti-gravity, propulsion, power and other technologies found in what are typically called "UFO" craft, many of which have been of man-made origin for the past few decades. These sequestered technologies not only don't benefit the public, but they are used to help manipulate and control the public which have become unwitting slaves.
What frustrates me about all the money spent on searching for this particle is that the world will get very little in return. We will still have the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, and the global economic depression to deal with. For all of the billions of dollars spent on the LHC, we will not have a single solution to these problems as a result.
I think that the money spent on the LHC and other wasteful "big science" projects (such as hot fusion) should be spent on smaller, less expensive projects. For example, a lab to study cold fusion technology such as Andrea Rossi's E-Cat, would require only a thousandth the funding as the search for a boson that may not exist. A lab to study magnetic interactions between hard and soft ferro-magnetic materials could cost even less. I think a few hundred thousand dollars to study supplementing ordinary vehicles with HHO to determine just how much fuel efficiency can be increased, would yield more real world benefit than a billion dollars spent chasing bosons or other sub-atomic particles.
It seems to me that any discovery with near term real world applications can be made at a price far lower than ten billion dollars. With a fraction of that much funding, we could probably find ways to reverse the human aging process, or achieve some other great wonder. Of course this is if we can keep the government out of the picture. Whenever government gets involved the price of everything goes through the roof. For example, the average prescription drug can cost $100,000,000 to get approved.
If military spending was reduced, the amount saved could pay for a dozen colliders like the one at CERN -- or thousands of smaller projects that could yield technologies that could solve some of the issues we are facing -- or better yet, reduce the debt that is overwhelming the economy. Instead, we keep spending trillions of dollars on our war machinery: the military industrial complex.
If we want our civilization to survive, we need to oppose big and wasteful projects such as those that chase for hypothetical particles. The money could be better spent! Here is a short list of ideas for how the money could be used.
- Cold fusion research
- Magnetics research
- Anti-aging research
- Gravity control research
- Reaction-less propulsion research
A breakthrough in any of the above areas could be worth trillions of dollars. The discovery of the Higgs Boson is worth ZERO dollars, at least in the short term. It may produce some benefits decades from now, but nothing in the next few years. We need exotic energy technologies now, and not in some "pie in the sky" future. If we want to learn more about how the universe works, we can do so with experiments that fit on a lab bench.
At least the US military allegedly took a good first step towards promoting affordable scientific research by purchasing thirteen one megawatt E-Cat plants from Andrea Rossi. Hopefully, other nations will follow suit. Governments around the world need to divert the money they are spending away from wasteful "big science" projects that cost billions of dollars, and instead use it to support research that could help us ward off climate change, stop using fossil fuels, stop dying of old age, and build a better civilization.
If we want to learn the truth about the Higgs Boson in an affordable manner, I recommend people ask the "powers that be" what they acquired when they viewed the data files from the extraterrestrial craft that crashed at Roswell, NM. There could very well have been an "Encyclopedia Galactica" in there, with scientific information hundreds or even thousands of years more advanced than our own.
Those who have not studied the Roswell incident, and the massive evidence that indicates extraterrestrials are actively visiting our planet, may think the notion of getting such information from a UFO crash is silly. However, I think even a very skeptical person would agree spending billions of dollars on a project with no immediate, practical purpose -- when our species is facing huge challenges -- is even more silly.
Let's spend our money wisely, and say "no" to expensive boondoggles, such as the LHC and hot fusion research.
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This story is also published at BeforeItsNews.
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