In an astounding feet of scientific advancement, researchers have started up the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Switzerland. What the hell is a Hadron Collider you say? Why is it large, and should they have picked the medium size so they can watch their weight you say? FAUGH to you all, I say. Where and what is CERN? Go to Wikipedia I say! Or Google it, if you must know. Yah ok. Ok! Ill tell ya :D

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons charged with approximately 7 TeV of energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that the collider will produce the Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model, and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass. The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over eight thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories. The LHC is already operational and is presently in the process of being prepared for collisions. The first beams were circulated through the collider on 10 September 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are planned to take place after the LHC is officially unveiled on 21 October 2008. Although a few individuals have questioned the safety of the planned experiments in the media and through the courts, the consensus in the scientific community is that there is no conceivable threat from the LHC particle collisions.

Purpose When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson. The verification of the existence of the Higgs boson would be a significant step in the search for a Grand Unified Theory, which seeks to unify three of the four known fundamental forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force, leaving out only gravity. The Higgs boson may also help to explain why gravitation is so weak compared with the other three forces. In addition to the Higgs boson, other theorized particles, models and states might be produced, and for some searches are planned, including supersymmetric particles,[8] compositeness (technicolor),[9]extra dimensions,[10] strangelets,[11]micro black holes[12] and magnetic monopoles.[13]

CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (or the European Council for Nuclear Research)

There is a long standing debate about religion, God, and Science, and how one will prove or disprove the other. But I like to think Einstein was right when he said “ Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." The collider will provide a glimpse in to what happened after the supposed “Big Bang”. The most interesting things to date are this:

It was a Roman Cathoilic Monk who first proposed the Big Bang Theory

Genesis Chapter 1 verse 3 (very nearly all Bibles have the same translation) ‘Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.’

As well as Genesis 2:7 which almost all Bibles translate as “Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground (A) and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.”

In the 1980’s a Denver Colorado research team announced they had determined that all the necessary elements to create life could be found in the alluvial clay in most rivers. In case you are wondering, alluvial clay comes from the run-off of rain storms, so is comprised of the dirt around your home. And, since we are about to re-create the big-bang in a scientists’ basement in Switzerland, we could be about to learn about the big bang after all. Someone once told me “One day, science and religion will cross over the hill they have been fighting all these years, and find each other on the other side”. That moment may be on the horizon.

Anywho… regardless of what happens when they do actually collide two proton streams into one another and see what happened at the beginning of time, I can tell you this: We still won’t know HOW those damn ship builders get the freakin models inside the bottles!

PS... this has not been a statement of religious intent. It has merely been... a diary entry. :) Start the party now!!! :D