Биг Аль-Мухандис

And God said, Let there be mass:
and there was a Big Bang.
And God saw the mass, that it was good:
and God allowed it to slow down.

The Economist, Going round in circles In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever

The consensus among physicists is that particles began massless and got their mass subsequently from something known as the Higgs field—the search for which was one reason for building the Large Hadron Collider, a huge and powerful particle accelerator located near Geneva. Mass, then, is not thought an invariable property of matter. So Dr Penrose found himself speculating one day about how a universe in which all particles had lost their mass through some as-yet-undefined process might look. One peculiarity of massless particles is that they have to travel at the speed of light. That (as Einstein showed) means that from the particle’s point of view time stands still and space contracts to nothingness. If all particles in the universe were massless, then, the universe would look to them to be infinitely small. And an infinitely small universe is one that would undergo a Big Bang.

Мне кажется, что эти версии Господа Бога, которые нам так настойчиво продают физики-большой-взрывщики (big-bangers), очень уж похожи на гротескно раздутую (blown-up) фигуру террориста-инженера, взрывающего по кусочкам существующий мир, чтобы создать новый на его месте. Теоретики с культом бандита-пиротехника. Они, наверное, тайком каждое утро Интернационал поют.

Упд. Говорят, что эти повторные Большие Взрывы - вероятно, глупости. Так что Большой Аль-Мухандис, кажется, взорвал всё только один раз, как мы и думали раньше. Маленьким Аль-Мухандисам на заметку - настоящий артист не повторяется.

Биг Аль-Мухандис

And God said, Let there be mass:
and there was a Big Bang.
And God saw the mass, that it was good:
and God allowed it to slow down.

The Economist, Going round in circles In contradiction to most cosmologists’ opinions, two scientists have found evidence that the universe may have existed for ever

The consensus among physicists is that particles began massless and got their mass subsequently from something known as the Higgs field—the search for which was one reason for building the Large Hadron Collider, a huge and powerful particle accelerator located near Geneva. Mass, then, is not thought an invariable property of matter. So Dr Penrose found himself speculating one day about how a universe in which all particles had lost their mass through some as-yet-undefined process might look. One peculiarity of massless particles is that they have to travel at the speed of light. That (as Einstein showed) means that from the particle’s point of view time stands still and space contracts to nothingness. If all particles in the universe were massless, then, the universe would look to them to be infinitely small. And an infinitely small universe is one that would undergo a Big Bang.

Мне кажется, что эти версии Господа Бога, которые нам так настойчиво продают физики-большой-взрывщики (big-bangers), очень уж похожи на гротескно раздутую (blown-up) фигуру террориста-инженера, взрывающего по кусочкам существующий мир, чтобы создать новый на его месте. Теоретики с культом бандита-пиротехника. Они, наверное, тайком каждое утро Интернационал поют.

Упд. Говорят, что эти повторные Большие Взрывы - вероятно, глупости. Так что Большой Аль-Мухандис, кажется, взорвал всё только один раз, как мы и думали раньше. Маленьким Аль-Мухандисам на заметку - настоящий артист не повторяется.