"Daisy, Daisy / Give me your answer, do. / I'm half crazy / all for the love of you"
CERN has just announced the discovery of a new particle, called the “FERIR”.
This is not a fundamental particle of matter like the Higgs Boson, but an invention of economists. CERN in this instance stands not for the famous particle accelerator straddling the French and Swiss borders, but for an economic research lab at MIT—whose initials are coincidentally the same as those of its far more famous cousin.
This is a short video to point out that a cloud portal formed above CERN. Local meteorologists said that the clouds did not produce any rain and that it was likely a problem with the radars. I found this intriguing because of the timing. CERN has openly declared its ambition in 2016: the hunt for Supersymmetry and the Dark Universe. At the end of April, they began a power-up to 14 TeV, but a weasel disrupted the power, or so they claimed. CERN started back up between May 7th-9th 2016. It was right around this time that the cloud anomaly formed.
After scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) powered up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s largest particle accelerator — earlier in the week, following a disruption allegedly caused by a weasel, conspiracy theorists have raised alarm that yet another weather anomaly, claimed to be a portal to another dimension, was detected by Swiss meteorologists over the facility near the Jura Mountains.
The LHC, a ring-shaped 27-kilometer (17-mile) subterranean tunnel of superconducting magnets located near the France-Switzerland border, was switched on March 25 after a winter break to allow engineers and technicians conduct maintenance and safety tests ahead of the start of a new round of experiments in May.
But, the LHC suffered an electrical outage on Friday, April 29, after a weasel entered the transformer and gnawed through a 66-Kilovolt cable causing an electrical outage.
Kicking the world’s largest machine into overdrive is turning out to
be harder than expected. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at
CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland, say that plans to run their physics
experiments at higher energies are likely to be delayed until next year.
The LHC was rebooted in April,
after a two-year shutdown to upgrade the machine. In the second run, it
should be able to gather physics data at energies of 13
teraelectronvolts, the highest-energy collisions of particle beams ever.
But researchers in charge of getting it up and running again, who this
week presented the first report on the LHC’s performance at a conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, have revealed that things haven’t quite gone as planned.
“The process is slightly slower than we would have hoped,” says Paul
Collier, the LHC’s head of beams. Clouds of electrons created by ionised
gas in the beam chamber and microscopic dust particles – playfully
known as unidentified falling objects, or UFOs – are interrupting the
beams and making it harder to get the LHC running consistently.
These effects were present in the LHC’s previous run, but the higher
energies, plus efforts to produce more frequent collisions by bunching
particles in the beam closer together, make them a larger problem than
before.
Collier says the team had anticipated such potential issues, but they
have taken some time to deal with. He compares it to driving a car at
high speed: although you might be fine at 50 kilometres per hour, things
start rattling when you reach 150 kph. “Everything is much closer to
the limits of what the equipment can do, so the machine is less
forgiving,” he says.
Reboot hitch
It’s not the first problem this year: a short circuit in March
delayed the reboot. The team is only a few weeks behind schedule in
preparing beams for the LHC’s various experiments. But because the
quality of the beam gets better and more stable the longer it runs,
there won’t be time this year to reach peak physics. “Each stage is
vastly superior to everything that happens before it, so it’s only
towards the end of this process that you’re really mass-producing data,”
says Collier.
The researchers now expect to only reach 3 inverse femtobarns (3 fb-1) – the esoteric measurement of beam quality – this year, down from a planned 10. To put this in context, the long-sought Higgs boson was discovered after the LHC reached 12 fb-1.
But they are still on target to reach 30 fb-1 next year,
once they understand how to handle their souped-up collider. “We’re
learning an awful lot that will help us run the machine even better,”
says Collier. “I have good hopes for 2016.”
LHC restart: 'Experimental' current blast fixes glitch
By Jonathan WebbScience reporter, BBC News
The short circuit delaying the
restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been fixed, after a blast of
high current melted the metal particle responsible.
It is now likely that the LHC will see beams of protons racing around its 27km circumference early next week. The
massive machine's second run, after a two-year refit, had faced a delay
of up to several weeks after the glitch was discovered ten days ago. But now only much more routine tests remain to be completed. Cern, the European organisation for nuclear research, announcedon Tuesday that Run Two of the collider was "back on track".
The short circuit was caused by a tiny piece of metal
debris, which found its way into the pipes and became lodged in the
wiring of one of the LHC's powerful electromagnets. A short
caused by dust or debris is a common enough fault, but one which could
have taken weeks to fix if the team had needed to warm the magnet up
from its operating temperature of nearly -273C (absolute zero).
'Like blowing a fuse'
The mercifully rapid repair was something of an experiment, according to the head of Cern's beams department, Dr Paul Collier. After
his team pinpointed the location of the fault - to within centimetres -
using electrical signals, they "had a number of methods to explore", Dr
Collier told BBC News. One would have been to hose down the area
with helium gas, which could be done remotely; another would have been
to open the magnet up and send in an engineer. Maybe the safest mechanism would have been to warm up the machine and
go in there and clean it out - but that would have been a very long
process," Dr Collier said. So instead they tried something new:
passing nearly 400 amps of current directly through the short circuit,
for just a few milliseconds - "in the same way you would blow a fuse". Measurements
made on Monday evening suggested the trick had worked, and this was
confirmed when high voltages were put through the circuit on Tuesday. "There's no short there now, even at high voltages," Dr Collier said, clearly pleased with the solution. "We
can't pretend this is the only fragment in the system; it could well
recur in the future. But now we've got a mechanism to deal with it
relatively quickly - much more quickly than we did this time." A
vast, subterranean "atom smasher", the LHC is famous around the world
for pushing the boundaries of physics - including the discovery of the
Higgs bosonin 2012. Its
much-anticipated reboot will slam protons together with twice as much
energy as ever before, which researchers hope will yield insights into
huge, outstanding questions like the existence of dark matterand supersymmetry. Actual
collisions will still not recommence until at least May; the first big
step is to send beams all the way around the machine's parallel pipes,
in both directions - and this is now only days away. Follow Jonathan on Twitter
For 2-1/2 years, the former nuclear physicist at Europe's most prestigious particle accelerator has been in prison awaiting trial on charges of plotting terrorism with Al-Qaida's north African wing — claims his lawyers and allies deny vigorously.
Just a few weeks before the Thursday start of the trial, in an apparently unrelated case in southern France, another young man of Algerian descent, Mohamed Merah, was carrying out a spate of shooting attacks.
Merah told police he filmed himself killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers — and claimed affiliation with al-Qaida. He was killed in a shootout with police, but his rampage has shaken the French national psyche.
It is in this national context, with the Merah case eclipsing even France's presidential election race, that Hicheur finally goes on trial in a Paris court.
The cases of Hicheur, 35, and Merah, 23, are not the same. Hicheur never took a single step toward carrying out a terrorist act, he just spouted off online, his lawyers insist.
But any French person — including the judges who will be ruling on the Hicheur case — would need to have been living under a rock over the last week to miss out on new concerns about the threat of terrorism in France today.
"Clearly, the events of Toulouse and Montauban don't appear to create the most favorable conditions for the trial of Adlene Hicheur," said Hicheur lawyer Patrick Baudouin, referring to the two southern municipalities in which Merah carried out his slayings.
"We're really going to have to insist that there's no conflation," he told The Associated Press this week.
The Merah case has stirred up such a national fervor that re-election-minded President Nicolas Sarkozy has floated a proposal to make it a crime to repeatedly visit jihadist Web sites — in part because French counterrorism officials fear such "lone wolf" attacks by militants who self-radicalize online.
And Hicheur's case is all about the Internet.
A nuclear physicist at Switzerland's celebrated CERN laboratory, while laid up with a herniated disk in 2009, Hicheur railed in various e-mails about the need to punish Western governments for the allegedly anti-Muslim wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an order sending the case to trial.
He is accused of conferring with an alleged al-Qaida contact about possible assassination or bombing plots, but his defenders say it was all talk, no action. Hicheur faces charges of "criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks."
His advocates allege the Algerian-born scientist fits French authorities'"profile" for the homegrown terrorist they most worry about: Muslim, young, angry at the West; well-educated, Internet-savvy, and self-radicalized.
Hicheur is very well-educated, integrated into French society and never took any steps to gather weapons, his supporters say. But the threat that he posed seemed even more potent because of his access to a potential security hazard — the CERN lab. He had no police record.
Merah, by contrast, struggled in school, ran with a ultraconservative Muslim crowd, and amassed a small arsenal. He claimed he stole to drum up money to buy weapons.
Hicheur was arrested in a pre-dawn raid on Oct. 8, 2009, at his parents' home in southeastern France, hours before he was to take a flight to Algeria to work on a real estate purchase, Baudouin said.
Baudouin said French investigators pored over about 35 emails between Hicheur and an alleged Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb contact. Some cited possible targets, including a French military barracks in the Alps.
Investigators say Hicheur, under police questioning, admitted that he believed a contact he had in the email correspondence — a man in Algeria named Mustapha Debchi — was part of AQIM. A police search of Hicheur's computer also turned up a file folder titled "tempo AQMI" — for the group's French language acronym.
Debchi allegedly sought to persuade Hicheur to carry out a suicide bombing — which he refused, responding that it was against Islam, and that he had no intention of dying prematurely, the court documents showed.
CERN says it adheres to the principle of innocence until guilt is proven and looks forward to Hicheur receiving a fair trail, CERN spokesman James Gillies said Wednesday.
Hicheur was on contract with CERN from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. A postdoctoral researcher, his contract with CERN expired at the end of March 2010, a few months after his arrest, according to institute spokesman Michael David Mitchell.
Hicheur is the only person to face trial in the case.
"I hope today that we'll have a trial that separates the context of the killings in Toulouse and Montauban, (and) that the case of Adlene Hicheur is judged individually," the lawyer said.
"Hicheur mustn't be a scapegoat for a case he has nothing to do with."
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John Heilprin in Geneva contributed to this report.
PARIS — A French state prosecutor on Friday asked a Paris court to sentence an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to six years in prison for his suspected role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida’s north African wing.
The request came at the end of the two-day trial of Adlene Hicheur, a former researcher at Switzerland’s CERN laboratory for alleged “criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks.”
The three-judge panel has recessed for deliberations before handing down its verdict on May 4. Hicheur, who has been behind bars since he was arrested in October 2009, risks a maximum 10 years in prison.
The 35-year-old scientist and his defenders say he was a victim of allegedly overzealous French anti-terrorism laws and that he explored ideas on jihadist websites — but never took any concrete step toward terrorism.
The case centers on about 35 emails between Hicheur and an alleged contact with Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb named Mustapha Debchi, who tried to convince him to carry out a suicide bombing. Hicheur declined, but in one response suggested striking at the barracks of a battalion of elite Alpine troops in the eastern town Cran-Gevrier.
Hicheur claimed he was on morphine for a herniated disk and going through a personal “zone of turbulence” when he wrote an 2009 email that advocated an attack on the barracks.
Prosecutor Guillaume Portenseigne rejected Hicheur’s claims of a lack of lucidity and characterized the defendant as “a man who had everything going for him ... but just got led astray in a radical jihadist Islam.”
“Adlene Hicheur was a budding terrorist: He only needed that determining meeting to slip” into concrete action, the prosecutor told the court.
Defense lawyer Patrick Baudouin said a conviction would be “an error” and that “From the beginning, everything has been done to demonize him, to make him into ... France’s most dangerous terrorist, potentially susceptible to participate in a bombing.”
That, he argued, “would place on his shoulders something that he is incapable of doing — fortunately.”
Hicheur’s defenders say the context of the trial makes their case difficult because of recent terror attacks in France. Earlier this month, in an apparently unrelated case, police say another young man of Algerian descent killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in the cities of Toulouse and Montauban and claimed ties to al-Qaida. Mohamed Merah, 23, died later in a shootout with police.
French Cern scientist goes on trial for 'al-Qaeda plot'
Emails sent by Adlene Hicheur apparently discussed targets
A nuclear scientist at the Cern laboratory has gone on trial in France accused of plotting terrorist attacks.
Adlene Hicheur has been in custody since his arrest two-and-a-half years ago, after police intercepted his emails to an alleged contact in Al-Qaeda.
Court documents say the emails proposed targets and suggested Mr Hicheur was willing to be part of an active unit.
His lawyers say he only expressed views online and he was never part of a plot.
The French domestic intelligence service, DCRI, looked at 35 emails sent between Hicheur and an alleged contact in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
He had been under surveillance for 18 months as investigators monitored the account of Algerian Mustapha Debchi, alleged to be a member of AQIM.
Investigators say the emails, in which the men use pseudonyms, discuss possible "military and political targets to punish governments" in Europe and in particular France.
But Mr Hicheur, who was born in Algeria, never said he would actually carry out an attack.
Shadow of Merah shootings
Adlene Hicheur's family have complained his emails were "misinterpreted"
They were sent while Mr Hicheur was at home from his work at the Cern particle accelerator, suffering from a herniated disc. During this illness he is said to have consulted numerous Islamist websites.
His supporters say he was only expressing strong views and was not planning attacks.
At the start of the trial Mr Hicheur criticised the case against him. "I see a lot of confusion and inaccuracies," Agence France-Presse reported.
"It would be too tedious to revisit each of them (but) the assertions about me... are inaccurate, are subject to debate."
His brother, Halim, complained that the emails had been interpreted in a "biased way".
"This dossier was tampered with from the beginning by the DCRI. Some people wanted to raise the spectre of the terrorism threat by the Algerian, Muslim nuclear physicist, etc."
The trial comes a week after French special forces shot dead Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in Toulouse and Montauban.
Security issues have since dominated the French presidential election campaign, with President Nicolas Sarkozy proposing that anyone regularly visiting extremist websites should be prosecuted. The first round of voting takes place next month.
"The events of Toulouse and Montauban don't appear to create the most favourable conditions for the trial of Adlene Hicheur," said his lawyer Patrick Baudouin.
"We're really going to have to insist that there's no conflation."
Mr Baudouin told journalists that unlike Merah his client had no weapons in his possession, and no history of violence.
16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666
"NASA,True Holographic Projection Systems,Crop Circles,Space Based Laser Weapons"
NASA ... working on blades and advanced lasers for True Holographic Projection Systems.
The UFO phenomenon"Revelation 13:13
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven in the sight of men.This is a reference to the Antichrist performing miracles a verse in scripture of possible satanic association to a phenomena in the sky. Other Scriptures are in (2 Thessalonian 2:9) (Matthew 24:22-24). Are Crop Circles created with Space Based Laser Weapons or other technologies the military possesses? We are always 20 years behind the government and it's kept secret technology." Interesting Scripture Link I've come across on the Web"
"The Bible Codes & Sir Isaac Newton"
The Bible Codes, Sir Isaac Newton set 2060 for end of world Britain's greatest scientist, predicted the date of the end of the world - and it is only 57 years away.
His theories about Armageddon have been unearthed by academics from little-known handwritten manuscripts in a library in Jerusalem.
The thousands of pages show Newton's attempts to decode the Bible, which he believed contained God's secret laws for the universe.Newton, who was also a theologian and alchemist, predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues and war and would precede a 1,000-year reign by the saints on earth - of which he would be one.
The most definitive date he set for the apocalypse, which he scribbled on a scrap of paper, was 2060.
Newton's fascination with the end of the world, which has been researched by a Canadian academic, Stephen Snobelen, is to be explored in a documentary, Newton: The Dark Heretic.
"What has been coming out over the past 10 years is what an apocalyptic thinker Newton was," Malcolm Neaum, the producer, said.
"He spent something like 50 years and wrote 4,500 pages trying to predict when the end of the world was coming. But until now it was not known that he ever wrote down a final figure. He was very reluctant to do so."
Thousands of Newton's papers, which had lain in a trunk in the house of the Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years, were sold by Sotheby's in the late 1930s.
John Maynard Keynes, the economist, bought many of the texts on alchemy and theology. But much of the material went to an eccentric collector, Abraham Yahuda, and was stored in the Hebrew National Library. It was among these documents that the date was found .
From medieval times, the belief that the Bible contains some type of secret code has fascinated many people, including the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. In 1958, Rabbi Weissmandel found some interesting patterns in the Hebrew Pentateuch (also known as the Books of Moses, the Torah, and the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament). Unfortunately, he had no access to computers, and so was not able to develop his findings.
A team at Hebrew University in Jerusalem reported remarkable findings of codes buried in the book of Genesis in 1988. Other researchers followed, claiming to find predictions in the ancient text of "the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 to a Los Angeles earthquake in 2010.
The actual truth about the Bible codes was finally revealed by statistical analysis: they do not just exist in the Pentateuch; they are found everywhere. ELS codes are found with approximately equal frequency in the Book of Genesis, the Qur'an, Tolstoy's "War and Peace," or in any sufficiently long text written in any language -- probably even in this web site which totals over loads of megabytes of text.
"Scientific Evidence!Water in Outer Space and the Genesis Factor"
Water in Outer Space Confirms Genesis 1:6-7
A remarkable scientific fact recorded in the Scriptures is found in the book of Genesis. The Bible declares that God separated the waters below (in the earth) from the waters above (in the Heavens).
And God said, Let there be firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. (Genesis 1:6-7)
The 3500 year old Bibical statement declared that God created a large amount of water that He placed in the Heavens, or in deep space. Is there any scientific evidence that supports this intriguing ancient Biblical statement? The existence of water in space seemed improbable, if not impossible, to scientists until quite recently. However, new astronomical discoveries have revealed that massive amounts of water exist in outer space, exactly as the Bible originally claimed. Naturally, because of the extremely cold temperatures found in space, these waters are frozen into ice. Frozen water has been discovered within the ice caps on Mars, as well as in the beautiful rings of ice and dust circling the planet Saturn. In addition, astronomers discovered that the comets traveling through our solar system are composed of massive amounts of ice and rock.
A meteor composed of a huge block of ice and rock from space collided with the earth at the beginning of the last century in a remote part of Siberia in northern Russia:
In the morning of June 30, 1908, a fantastic explosion occured in central Siberia... Witnesses described an enormous meteoric bolide visible in the sky for a few seconds. Other witnesses from a distance of 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the point of impact were knocked over... Seismic shocks were registered over the whole world... this event was due to the collision with the earth of a block of ice weighing 30,000 tons which... released energy equivalent to that of a thermonuclear bomb of 12 megatons.
The latest scientific research revealed that tremendous amounts of ice also exist at the outer edge of our solar system. Astronomers now believe that there is a vast region of space at the edge of our solar system that holds perhaps a trillion large comets composed of ice and rock. Each large comet is believed to contain up to one trillion tons of ice. The vast amount of water in the earth’s oceans is a small fraction of the quantities of water that exist in the "firmament above," as reported in the Genesis passage.
Another passage in Job also refers to the ice and frost found in the Heavens:
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? (Job 38:28-31).
How could someone like Job, living, during ancient times, in the hot climate of what is now Saudi Arabia, have known about frozen ice caps in the far north and south of our planet?
Pluto's Moon Has Ice Volcanoes
Charon, Pluto's sole moon has been discovered to have volcanoes that spew water ice into space. Water apparently is liquid inside the moon, probably due to an ammonia mixture that acts like an antifreeze. The water instantly turns to ice when they hit the cold of space. The volcanoes were detected with the Gemini observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Residual water ice in Vastitas Borealis Crater
"Job and the Dinosaur"
Job 40:15-24 15 ¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his
sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook
compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he
can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
The entire description given in these verses fit certain types of dinosaurs very well. But we're going to zero in on one particular verse. It's in verse 17 it says, "He moveth his tail like a cedar:".
Second Witch and the CERN Project?
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble!"Fillet of a fenny snake,In the cauldron boil and bake:eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,for a charm of pow'rful trouble,Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."Second Witch, "Macbeth," IV:1
"The Book of Revelation was written sometime around 96 CE in Asia Minor."
The Book of Revelation was written sometime around 96 CE in Asia Minor. The author was probably a Christian from Ephesus known as "John the Elder." According to the Book, this John was on the island of Patmos, not far from the coast of Asia Minor, "because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 1.10). This has traditionally been taken to mean that he had been exiled there as a martyr for his Christian faith. Some scholars, however, have suggested that it might have been a regular stop on a preaching circuit. Next, the author says, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet" (Rev. 1.11), and this voice tells him to write what he is about to see. This begins the "revelatory" vision that is at the center of the book. Ephesus was both the capital of the Roman province of Asia and one of the earliest centers of Christianity. The book next contains seven short letters of exhortation to t
he Christian churches in the seven leading cities of Asia Minor -- Ephesus (2.1-7, Smyrna (2.9-11), Pergamon (2.12-17) , Thyatira (2.18-29). Sardis (3.1-6), Philadelphia (3.7-13). and Laodicea (3.14-22). This region would become a key area for the expansion of Christianity into the Roman empire. But it was precisely this intersection that created the problem for the author, as it called for Christians to treat the Roman administration as agent of the devil. But recognizing this comes from understanding how to read this kind of apocalyptic literature. "HOW TO READ REVELATION "LINK @ Note*6 – represents the worship of man, and is the number of man, signifying his rebellion, imperfection, works, and disobedience. It is used 273 times in the Bible, including its derivatives (e.g, sixth) and another 91 times as “threescore” or “60.” Man was created on the sixth day (Genesis 1:26, 31). See also Exodus 31:15 and Daniel 3:1. The number is especially significant in the book Revelation, as “666” identifies the beast. (Revelation 13:18).