now that is over - the splatter poems - i've got to look for a new project. it was a good exercise to force myself to write everyday. some of the splats i think are okay while others i think just simply went splat. that is simply how it was supposed to go, i think. i simply can't believe that it's been a year, 2 separate months of june, already so that when derek thought aloud about doing the splats again this past june i had to check the calendar. you mean it's already june '08?! well, that's what happens, as the years flow forward the current becomes a deluge and soon the years blend together. i'm gonna simply start calling time THE BIG ONE and leave it at that. what are the years anyway. the sun shines just the same, figuratively speaking, whatever name or number we use, right?!
okay, so there was news about a new giant, super-powerful, particle accelerator, the large hadron collider, located outside geneva, switzerland where some scientists fear by turning on the collider might produce a black hole that would swallow up the earth, or create theoritical objects called strangelets that have the power to turn ordinary matter into strange matter thus destroying everything they touch.
i recall a show on the history channel about possible doomsday scenarios which ended with a young, brilliant scientist turning on a collider and unleashing strangelets, which was the end of the world. not a likely outcome from the large hadron collider, i think, tho sure it is from a physicist's point of view a minute possibility.
but the theories of strangelets and blackholes got my imagination working. logan and steve both imagined as much too. as for the end of the world, shit, when is it not ending? but if it is going to be destroyed by a man-made blackhole or strangelets we'll have to sit tight another month for the collider is expected to go online in august. what i do find fascinating is the human species, that human beings, who all have to live, shit, eat, fuck and die, can think up and create such a device as the large hadron collider. okay, only a few human beings can do it, but it is still amazing and to think that scientists might be able to get a glimpse of other dimensions just blows my mind.
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"from a physicist's point of view a minute possibility."
Actually if the following plausible assumptions are true, then the odds of danger might be anything but minute.
1. Micro black are created? PHDs predict possibly yes!
2. Micro black holes are stable? PHDs predict possibly yes!
3. Micro black holes grow quickly? PHDs predict possibly yes!
That leads to an uncomfortable conclusion.
1. The Earth might be destroyed by micro black hole? PHDs predict possibly yes!
Learn more at LHCFacts.org or LHCDefense.org or the Wikipedia.org article Safety of the Large Hadron Collider.
it means (1) I'm getting old & can't see well anymore (2) my mind is still a teen
but I swear my first glimpse came thru to me as "the large hardon collider."
thanks, jtankers for the links. is the end of the world mathematically possible? yes,is the answer. is it probable? we'll see in a month.
ha! i swear, alex, i nearly fell out of my chair laughing so hard when i read this at work. that's the best way to grow old, with the mind still a teen.
richard, i like them splats... so now? SpatS?
thanks for the one at Brim...
I think the splatter thing was great. Lots of good stuff came out and what a great exercise. I think I'll have to try it when I'm feeling brave and committed. I'll have to call it something else though, since the term "splatter" just kind of grosses me out. It makes me think of vomit, which is not what your poems were like nor what I would want to produce but still I'll use something else. Words have a powerful effect on the brain, of course.
Thanks for sharing your "splats"!
As for the end of the world--do you remember Y2K? Or that comet scare? Or the "Harmonic Convergence"? Or further back in our youth, the certainty that the Soviets would start WWIII? Some people get off on those fears. Some ppl form religions around them. I reckon it's just an extension of the fear of our own personal death to be afraid for the whole planet.
Is it worse or better to die along with everything in the world and the world itself rather than to die and the world goes on without you?
thanks cat for the kind words on the splats. guess the word 'splatter' is pretty gross but the definition for these poems are for extemporaneous writings with little or no editing, much like o'hara wrote his 'i do this, i do that' poems or ginsberg's 'first thought, best thought'. hence words splatter across the screen.
there are always someone or group of someones ready to declare it is the end of the world. the end is always on hand for some, and i think they might be right, for it seems nature itself is cyclical and so what ends also means a becoming, or a birth. but probably not in some cataclysmic event or series of events. but i'm a pessimist when it comes to human nature and i think we've done a pretty good job of ruining our plaent. as for the soviets and wwwiii there was that tense moment during the cuban missile crisis where it seemed that wwwiii almost became a reality.
i've no problem knowing that the world will get along fine without me, seems to be doing just that now. what frightens me is the idea of surviving some form of cataclysm, or even entropy. that life on earth becomes so dire that death is a palatable option is one that scares the shit outta me. i'm fascinated by the doomsday scenarious just the same, but i'm a whimp and would never want to survive any sort of doomsday.
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