"“This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
- Buddha quotes, Think Exist.com
Now, why am I quoting this?
This is why- who is the most dangerous killer of men, and the least feared of all?
Again, this is one good article:
Not an easy post to summarise: this is about death, and causes of death.
Predators like lions and bears kill us, and we are rightly afraid of them. But what about mosquitoes? Bacteria kill more of us, but we don't fear mosquitoes. Is that because we don't see the effect directly after the bite?
And then what about man? More people (and other animals) are killed by man than anything else. There is evidence- castles, forts- everywhere in our cities.
But then, what about you?
Yes, you!:
" Worldwide, deaths from suicide now outnumber deaths from war and homicide together: the World Health Organization estimates that each year around one million people — predominantly men — kill themselves."
Is this anything to do with the way we have civilised ourselves? Cities, gadgets, rockets…
" Something about the way we live means that, for many of us, life comes to seem unbearable, a long, melancholy ache of despair."
(Photo Credit: Limbo Poet)
Problem with corruption: it is never done with.
Chicago Freight tunnels: enthralling reading.
Read this- has lessons for how our past comes back haunting-
Past comes haunting: Illegal freight tunnels:
"The groundwork for the Great Flood of 1992 was laid a century before, when the Illinois (later Chicago)Tunnel Company built a series of semi-official, semi-clandestine tunnels under almost every street downtown. The tunnels were only supposed to house telephone cables, but in a nice Pynchonian twist, the operators covertly decided to install a narrow-gauge railway for delivering freight, as well."
And its effect:
"The abandoned freight tunnels filled quickly, soon taking in about a quarter of a billion gallons.Water passed easily through old concrete barriers and soon began to fill the city’s subway system tunnels as well. Businesses that had forgotten about their illegal freight-tunnel hook-ups a half a century earlierwere shocked to find their foundations filling with up to forty feet of water…."
Good reading.
Remember the LHC?
Don't worry, it won't destroy the world. In fact, nothing can destroy Earth- our future is right here, taking care of itself, reaching its long, quantified arm to sabotage, terminate LHC:
This is our last, but the most important pick:
"“For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.”",
Which means, "…equations work just as well, Dr. Nielsen and others point out, if the boundary conditions specify a condition in the future (the apple on your head) instead of in the past, as long as the fundamental laws of physics are reversible, which most physicists believe they are."
So?
The LHC is doomed.
" A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather."
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