don't mess with it

who will explain our non-existence?

some ruminations from a groovological perspective
and a borrowed "ignorance based knowledge" world view.
(thanks to Wes Jackson & Wendell Berry)

dedicated to Sun Ra & "The Immeasurable Equation"
from WAITAWHILE press

We may not be here next week!
what if the final experiment that finally explains
"matter dominance in the universe"
is the experiment that undoes "matter dominance"?
light not reaching the human race in time
and we may take the 300 million year old horseshoe crab with us
plus 8 to 30 million other species
"In a mathematically perfect universe,
we would be less than dead;"
reporter Dennis (overbite) Overbye
isn't this a good reason not to "do the math" perfectly?
or is it dennis Over-bye-bye? can we trust the messenger?
all this striving for perfection
& a unified theory of everything
could obliterate us on the day we get it,
"get it right," "get everything tight"
get to know everything God only knows
wow! outtasight!!
anybody a bit worried about the humor, irony, timing of experiment?
you know, the latest experiment? next experiment? last experiment?
"A collider gives matter a small edge over antimatter"
sez times little headline
tucked away on page A17 after A1
"Why Are We Here? Let's Just Thank Our Lucky Muons We Are"
so just How small is that edge? who has the measuring stick?
could the edge be much smaller than we think?
could we be at the brink?
this could be the biggest apple bite ever?
just a wee bit more knowledge about the edge of the edge?
do any of the famous hedge funds have a hedge against "the edge"?
"This result may provide an important input for explaining
the matter dominance in our universe," Guennadi Borissov. . .
said Friday in a talk at Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill. . . . .
Maria Spiropulu of CERN and the California Institute of Technology
called the results "very impressive and inexplicable."
supposedly it all comes down to Sakharov's "CP violation"
"when the charges and directions of particles are reversed,
they should behave slightly differently"
How slightly is slight?
Are we about to reverse the big bang in a big pooooof?
Is this "slight difference" that may make a "big differernce"
the reason we don't find intelligent life anywhere else
in this very particular big bang'd universe?
Or the reason we do find inexplicable "black holes" or "dark matter"?
Will it be any consolation that Geneva, Switzerland
may disappear first, a micro second before we do?
Fat's Waller's reply to the lady that asked him what jazz is:
"If you have to ask madam, don't mess with it!"
"if you gotta ask, don't mess with it" also attributed to
Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and other great groovemeisters
"tryin' to make it real compared to what?"
Les McCann
And finally my computer's question:
"Do you want to save the changes you made to . . .


letter to a luddite physics blogger

Hi Ted,
Much appreciate your running commentary on the "lucky Muons" reporting. I don't believe in "progress" or in "science" always leading us to better technologies, etc. very skeptical and alarmed by bioengineers performing "the next needed experiment." Ditto for "Large Hadron Collider" and whatever CERN stands for.
What do the initials stand for?

Is the "the next right thing to do" for physicists, the next right thing for the rest of us?

Any discussions inside or outside the DZero team about the dangers of "imploding" or "tilting," or causing another "Great Annihilation" or a human caused "poof" that reverses the big bang or puts a "dent" or "hole" in our corner of the expanding Universe?

If the CP violations are "slight" an "edge" a tiny "discrepancy" isn't it dangerous to do more than observe Nature ever more closely and THINK about our quest for the Perfect theory?

What if "God" or "Evolution of life" or "The Universe" hinges on something like "imperfection"/"mutation" or what a MacArthur Fellow friend calls (in relation to the "the participatory discrepancies" of musicking) "the necessary slippage"?

Just for the record, I'm for a moratorium on big collisions in physics for this century, or until the atomic bomb can be "recalled", a 20 year moratorium on releasing any more manmade chemicals into the environment, a permanent moratorium on releasing bioengineered organisms into Nature, etc.

Are you "for" any of this? If not, why not?

Or what about trying to build some kind of fire wall between experimental science and technology? Let observational science catch up and fully evaluate the damage that has already been done.