I turned on my TV this morning and got a big black screen on Channel 11. There was a note proclaiming that Channel 11 was being greedy with their financial demands. Of course that was the Cable Company's opinion. Now what? Packer games are predominantly broadcast by Channel 11. The real question is "can a Wisconsinite exist without Packers in it"?
Most people don't care that a "collider" has been built deep in the ground under France and Switzerland. It has sucked up 7000 scientists from around the world in an attempt to send protons from opposite directions at the speed of light around a 17 mile loop. The objective is to get these infintesimal proton particles to crash and duplicate conditions similar to when the universe was created. It is called the Big Bang Theory. It is supposed to help explain why particles have mass (along with a lot of other things). When I was a kid, "big bang" meant something else.
One of the things that they don't tell you is that when the experiment is executed, the colliding protons whizzing around the 17 mile circuit is that a "black hole" could be created. The universe outside the planet Earth has many black holes that are really super mass locations that suck up and destroy anything that comes close to them. You don't want to be sucked into a black hole. The fear is that colliding protons could produce mini-black holes and our world could be imploded into the hole and we will all disappear. Essentially it would be a mini "big bang".
So with all the negative in the world like global warming, financial crisis, energy depletion, world health issues, now we have to worry about being sucked into a mini black hole. The one positive to this whole thing is the the "collider" is partially located under the country of France and it would be the first to disappear into the hole. Now that brightens my day!
The lesson Grasshoppers is that life has many issues. Human beings have been very resourceful in solving complex issues and somehow we keep moving forward. Rejoice! The collider experiment will not generate a black hole and somehow I think I will get my Channel 11 back. The sun will come out tomorrow.
Love,
Dad