CERN & The Cosmos
How’s that for a ambitious post title? I’ll be brief, just to say that I’m happy to be alive when one of the most incredible recent activities of our species is conducted even when we seem hellbent (excuse the religious references, it’s unavoidable Western indoctrination of language) on destroying our environmental infrastructure in the pursuit of short term profit. But I digress….
So here’s some links to the best science series ever made – well at least the best I’ve seen – Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. He has a point in this brief introduction – why do we find the sea, the ocean, the vastness so romantic, so alluring? Anyway, I have vague memories of seeing this when I was about ten and the Vangelis soundtrack has always lodged in the cranium, magnifying Sagan’s efforts to condense the entire history of existence into ten hours of education. The phrase ‘epic‘ seems reductive.
Here’s some background on tomorrows historic event and some amusing commentary. Who knows, if CERN doesn’t envelop the planet in a mysterious apocalyptic glamor then maybe our shaved monkey race can move forward. May you live in interesting times indeed…
If you’re still here in twelve hours then go out tonight to your garden and have a look upward. See what you can see. Marvel at that.
Brilliant isn’t it?
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