Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nature
Just a quick editor's note here: not sure if anyone clicked through the link in this morning's post about Einstein's insight that time's linearity is illusory, but if you did click through the link, it went to the European Organization for Nuclear Research homepage for the Large Hadron Collider.
This is the page that gives their official spiel on the machine with which they hope to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. The single most interesting thing in the manifesto née sales brochure is that they arbitrarily capitalize nature, ostensibly treating it as a proper noun. It is our recollection that nature with the capital N is associated with the divine, nu? Aren't these folks particle physicists? Who made the call on capitalizing the word nature? It has especially explosive implications given the fears of some about what the Large Hadron Collider may be capable of reproducing.
Labels: Language, science, thought
Comments:
I also found it interesting that the spell check thinks collider is an error, but spiel and nu are just fine.
Interesting tidbit, Sled.
They sure aren't mutually exclusive in my view, but that's a skosh down the sliding scale from compatibility.
They sure aren't mutually exclusive in my view, but that's a skosh down the sliding scale from compatibility.
I have a friend who works on that - it's the one over in Switzerland right? I know there are two of them, one in the US and one over there... It's pretty sweet stuff, if they ever get it working.
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