by Matt Woolner

Stephen Hawking Doubts God Particle & Lhc

It's time to place your bets! And you do not have to go to Las Vegas to do so. British astrophysicist Stephen Hawkin g has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science. There is no God particle. The LHC will not discover what the creators (no pun intended) are looking for.

In the most complex scientific experiment ever undertake, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be switched on Wednesday, accelerating sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light before smashing them together. "The LHC will increase the energy at which we can study particle interactions by a factor of four. According to present thinking, this should be enough to discover the Higgs particle," Hawking told BBC radio.

"I think it will be much more exciting if we do not find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100 dollars that we will not find the Higgs," added Hawking, whose books including "A Brief History of Time" have sought to Popularis study of stellar physics. Oh come on do not be a party pooper Stephen. let's do this thing!

On Wednesday the first protons will be injected into a 27-kilometer (16.9-mile) ring-shaped tunnel, straddling the Swiss-French border at the headquarters of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Physicists have long puzzled over how particles acquire mass. In 1964, a British physicist, Peter Higgs, came up with this idea: there must exist a background field: this mysterious dark energy that some scientists think make up the majority of the universe.

Then there's those who feel that we're messing with mother nature and father universe and that we could end up creating black holes that will suck us in and doom us all, Hubert Reeves, the French astrophysician, told the Swiss daily Le Matin that the invention could bring "unexpected results" that would change the world of particle physics forever. And the law of "unintended consequences" could bring things we nevr Bargained for as well.

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Anyone want to take Stephen up on his bet?

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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