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GENEVA (Reuters) - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on Monday. 

Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said weekend trials in the vast underground LHC machine in which the particle-smashing experiment will take place over the coming months and years "went without a hitch."

"We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC," said Evans, who heads the multinational team of scientists that shaped the project and the machine, the Large Hadron Collider.

The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27-km (17-mile) beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter- clockwise around it for about 3 kms (2 miles).

Earlier in the month a clockwise trial in the LHC -- which runs deep under French and Swiss territory between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva -- had been equally successful, CERN said.

The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe in one direction on September 10 as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year.

That collision, in which both particle clusters will be traveling at the speed of light, will be monitored on computers at CERN and laboratories around the world by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible.

The elusive particle, which has been dubbed the "Higgs boson" after Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who first postulated nearly 50 years ago that it must exist, is thought to be the mysterious factor that holds matter together.

Recreating a "Big Bang," which most scientists believe is the only explanation of an expanding universe, ought to show how stars and planets came together out of the primeval chaos that followed, the CERN team believes.

Efforts to track it down in a predecessor to the LHC at CERN, and in another experiment in the United States, failed. But scientists are confident that the vast leap in technologies represented by the LHC will make the difference.

Higgs, a 79-year-old Edinburgh University professor who as an atheist angrily rejects the idea of calling the boson the "God particle" -- believes it will show up very quickly once the beams are colliding in the LHC.

"If it doesn't," he said during a visit to CERN earlier this year, "I shall be very, very puzzled."

(Editing by Jonathan Lynn and Mary Gabriel)

from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080825/sc_nm/science_cern_dc

Don't forget tonight is the height of the Perseids Meteor Shower, about 1-2 every minute

Ever wonder what a Buddhist service is like? Kansas City is blessed to hold a Buddhist temple which practices Tibetan Buddhism. Sunday service is a beautiful thing to behold, even for someone who is not religious. It is an experience just to take in the imagery.  As you sit in the temple you face East toward an altar that takes up much of the Eastern side of the room. It is adorned with images and statues of the Buddhas, the Dalia Lama, offerings of every kind, and various objects used for ritual. The room contains prayer flags and every wall adorns rows of thankas which are artistic representations of various deities.

          Today they had live musicians for the service, a guitar player and a musical instrument, have no idea what it is called. It is the instrument in which you bang two sticks with balls at the end onto a row of metal pieces like in that one Violent Femmes song. It was huge though, on a floor stand and several feet long. The Tibetan horns sound and the 3 precepters enter. The candles and incense are lit. You basically recite different things such as refuge, supplications to Buddha, Manjushri (bodhisattva of wisdom), Maitreya (future Buddha), Tara (Mother of all Buddhas of the three times), and several mantras and meditation. It may seem kinda strange but I like it.

          They have also incorporated Tonglen practice into the service. It is a healing visualization in which you relieve suffering from yourself, friends, loved ones, and even enemies.  Enemies because ignorance is one of the three poisons and Buddhist pray that all beings be liberated.  Instead of in with the good out with the bad, it is in with the bad out with the good. You visualize breathing in pain and suffering and transmuting it into good and light as you breath out.

          Ya, there a lot of great things about Buddhism. A friend of mine once said fuck Buddhism, it’s so depressing because all they talk about is pain and suffering. It may be so but it is so enlightening to me because it teaches you the path to end suffering and pain. The basic and most simple act to relieve suffering is through compassion and generosity.

          I know it’s kind of hard to live like that in a world full of asswholes, land sharks, and diseased minds who constantly toil and cause trouble for you or for the world at large. It is a battle everyday. But I guess I refuse to have such a bleak outlook on life anymore. I am through with my angst of youth and ready to find richer meaning in this life. I refuse to be a part of what I see is wrong with the world anymore and focus on what I would like to see in the world. Anyway… that was my exciting Sunday morning with insights.

Come support the arts scene in KC Crossroads and West Bottoms

Tues July 22 - Sunday July 27

www.kcfringe.org

Burlesque, art, theatre, dance, spoken word, film, improv, music

shows every night

If you want to volunteer you can earn free tickets and drinks.

I need help on Tuesday and Wed. night. I am House Manager at The Foundation on Tues and Karma on Wed. and am in serious  need of a partner 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. Wed. is Burlesque from St. Louis, great performance not to be missed in the Bottoms.

E-mail me for details if interested or show up at the old Dixie Bell Warehouse Complex Tues. night at 7:00 pm 1915 Main for details

Too tired of being depressed and bored. Too lazy to make it to Sunday Yoga, after it was so generously changed from the annoying way too early Saturnday routine. It changes to afternoon Sunday and yet I still can’t manage to make it. I have been failing at most every mark and a glutton for punishment after years of dedicated practice and daily routine in all my studies. I must change my process codes. No, not something about a Process ideation from the 90’s.

“Design and programming are human activities, forget that and all is lost” Bjarne Stroustrup

I am in the process of stagnation. I threw the I-Ching yesterday and I received hexagram 41which is called “Decline”, oh so depressing and fitting of my current situation. I find depression and boredom unacceptable and I am doing everything in my power to battle this disease.  The I-Ching states “the decrease is in accordance with forces of the cosmos and therefore perfectly natural and completely unavoidable. Accept the Decline and respond appropriately by simplifying your life” Great words of wisdom, because as soon as I accepted the circumstances of my current situation, I was somehow released from it’s hold upon my soul.

I-Ching 41 was a changing hexagram to number 18 “Repair” All things have built-in weak points, places that decay and eventually collapse. This is especially visible in human affairs” The I-Ching real or unreal, always gives me the best advise, exactly what I need to hear. Call me a Fool.

We as humans don’t always experience the good, we have to have the bad, we have to experience the dark night of the soul in order to stagnate and be reborn. It is a process that is unavoidable. The ebb and flow of nature.

An external approach to inner development can be compared to yoga practices. By adapting certain physical postures of balance and discipline, a resonant chord is struck in the spirit. Such an alignment between the internal and the external creates a more sensitive consciousness, a certain enlightened awareness, and an overall healthy atmosphere.

I am a hopeless romantic, call it a flaw or call it a strength. By love alone is life worthwhile. I only want to experience love free from pain, but yet you can’t have one without the other. It is the balance of opposites, the magic we so wish to control yet sometimes it is out of our hands. Acceptance and change is key in accordance with the Will. Learn to love or vow to hate.

You CAN enjoy being a part of civilization

Memetics: is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an "Ideosphere" (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds. Memes reproduce by spreading to new hosts, who will spread them further.

Misanthropy is a general dislike, distrust, or hatred of the human species, or a disposition to dislike and/or distrust other people. The term is also applicable to those who self-exile themselves or become loners because of the aforementioned feelings. The word comes from the Greek words μίσος ("hatred") and άνθρωπος ("man, human being"). A misanthrope or misanthropist is a person who dislikes or distrusts humanity as a general rule. -Wikipedia

I have however been trying to adopt Buddhist philosophy of compassion in order to nurture feelings of general well being in an attempt to fight this horrid plague of my mind. But yet it assails me on a daily basis.  I began sponsoring a Tibetan refuge who lives in Dharmasala last year, but now i am too poor to do such a wonderful act. I try to give as much of my time and effort to our Oasis but i guess i need some more outlets. Maybe some Poetic Terrorism in the words of Poet Priest Hakim Bey. http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz1.html#labelPoeticTerrorism. (Temporary Autonomous Zone can be purchased or downloaded - it is a spoken word cd with the music of Bill Laswell, I highly recommend it. Listening to it has a much more profound effect) http://www.hermetic.com/bey/

Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. In a more fundamental sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity which is intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. -Wikipedia

Cultivate, Cultivate, Cultivate!!!