![]() To say that we had a conversation would be an exaggeration, due to my still very hesitant English, but I understood that I was assigned to the magnet group”. ![]() Giorgio had boundless admiration for John Adams, who had been recruited by Amaldi a year earlier, recounting: “John was only 34 years old, but had a very natural authority. I thus had the privilege of participating in one of the most important intellectual adventures in Europe, and perhaps the world, which in half a century has made CERN ‘the’ world laboratory for particle physics.” In his autobiography – written for his family and friends – Giorgio describes this meeting as follows: “Edoardo Amaldi received me very warmly and, after various discussions, he said to me: ‘You can go home: you will receive a letter of appointment from Geneva soon’. Driven by a taste for research, he learned, thanks to his thesis adviser, that Edoardo Amaldi was setting up an international organisation in Geneva called CERN and was invited to meet him in Rome in June 1954. Giorgio began his engineering studies at the University of Parma and continued them for three years in Bologna, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in May 1954. He played a major role in the success of CERN and in particular the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) project, and his legacy lives on across the whole of the accelerator complex. Giorgio Brianti, a pillar of CERN throughout his 40-year career, passed away on 6 April at the age of 92. And as Europe and China both race in search of the god particle, it may not be long before the world finds out who is at the end of that quest-the creator, or the destroyer of the universe.Giorgio Brianti (right) with John Adams in 1979. It is too early to tell, but now China is also joining the quest and building its own particle smasher five times more powerful than CERN’s LHC. Here, Saint John refers to a time when Satan is given the key to the “bottomless pit” to release a horde of demonic beings resembling locusts upon the world, and some wonder if this Biblical event is connected to the CERN experiments. And he opened the bottomless pit…And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth…”( Revelation 9:1-3). Given scientists refer to black holes as “ bottomless pits” of gravity, and coupled with discussion of opening a doorway into another dimension, many point to warnings in the Book of Revelation: “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. Also, they note how CERN is located in a place that was once called “Appolliacum” (“Apollyon” in Greek means “destruction”) in Roman times where they believed was a gateway to the underworld. The religious community is generally suspicious of CERN activities, and question what does the statue of the Hindu god Lord Shiva (“god of Destruction”) that is prominently displayed outside of the LHC has to do with science. Here, science meets religion in the search for the “god particle”. In the meantime, while scientists are concerned with black holes and decay of the universe, others from a religious standpoint are wary of CERN’s efforts to investigate extra dimensions and parallel universe through the LHC. The main worry is the creation of these microscopic black holes that would grow and eventually decay the earth from the inside.Īlthough CERN scientists try to reassure that these black holes would not destroy the universe, British astronomer Sir Martin Rees agrees with Hawking this may open a Pandora’s box and unleash high-energy “strange matters” that are very unstable and cause a “catastrophic vacuum decay” that would lead time and space to collapse. In fact in 2014, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking issued a stern warning in his book Starmus that the god particle may end up destroying the universe, a concern shared by many other physicists. The photos showed a strange cloud formation and electrical activities above the CERN complex, and this stirred a bit of media frenzy about “portals” in the sky, in light of the fact that LHC has detected mini black holes while smashing the particles, which could indicate parallel universes in extra dimensions. On June 16, 2016, CERN began the AWAKE (Advanced WAKEfield Experiment) project to accelerate charged particles, and coincidentally 10 days later photographer Christophe Suarez put online a series of photos of the skies above CERN.įriday night, a small supercell takes shape over #Geneva – Naissance d'une supercellule au dessus de #Geneve #Storm /Ac56pzbAJi Much of this controversy was generated by an incident in 2016.
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