Comments on: I Discuss A Hole in Space on NPR http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/04/04/i-discuss-a-hole-in-space-on-npr/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:40:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Gamma http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/04/04/i-discuss-a-hole-in-space-on-npr/#comment-14278 Gamma Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:33:04 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/04/04/i-discuss-a-hole-in-space-on-npr/#comment-14278 Bob has now left these islands 2 do more research on Finnegan & Wyndham lewis - it is bad move justin thyme fer T for 2 saild Alice - meanwhile i was reading Thurber - i am upset that gail Z (nee Sloatman?) is having a dig at the use of the ghoti as a trademark - wE OR oZ Bob has now left these islands 2 do more research on Finnegan & Wyndham lewis - it is bad move justin thyme fer T for 2 saild Alice - meanwhile i was reading Thurber - i am upset that gail Z (nee Sloatman?) is having a dig at the use of the ghoti as a trademark - wE OR oZ

]]> By: nick http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/04/04/i-discuss-a-hole-in-space-on-npr/#comment-14075 nick Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:26:05 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2008/04/04/i-discuss-a-hole-in-space-on-npr/#comment-14075 Worse things could happen at CERN's Large Hadron Collider than Rucker's (very unlikely) Hole in Space. Consider, for example, my late friend Heinz Pagels's "Great Desert Scenario"--something that physicists talk about only in whispers, and then only among friends. In the GDS routine, when the LHC is turned on and operating at 7 times more energy than #2 at FermiLab, They see exactly nothing--no Higgs, no supersymmetry parts, no exotic matter, only the usual detritus fully predicted by the Standard Model. Why? Because all the new physics is at super high energies--energies separated from the LHC range by a "great desert"--a desert whose extent we are not in a position to know. In this scenario, the consequences are more dire than if a black hole swallowed half of Switzerland. If the LHC quest comes up empty-handed, no more accelerators will be built. If the Great Desert exists, for God's sake, man, it means the frigging End of High Energy Physics! Worse things could happen at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider than Rucker’s (very unlikely) Hole in Space. Consider, for example, my late friend Heinz Pagels’s “Great Desert Scenario”–something that physicists talk about only in whispers, and then only among friends.

In the GDS routine, when the LHC is turned on and operating at 7 times more energy than #2 at FermiLab, They see exactly nothing–no Higgs, no supersymmetry parts, no exotic matter, only the usual detritus fully predicted by the Standard Model. Why? Because all the new physics is at super high energies–energies separated from the LHC range by a “great desert”–a desert whose extent we are not in a position to know.

In this scenario, the consequences are more dire than if a black hole swallowed half of Switzerland. If the LHC quest comes up empty-handed, no more accelerators will be built. If the Great Desert exists, for God’s sake, man, it means the frigging End of High Energy Physics!

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