September 20, 2008
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Question 98 – The CERN Collider: what is it trying to prove?
Question 98 – The CERN Collider: what is it trying to prove?
Dear Robert,
Several people, remembering this summer's geocentrism event here,
have asked me what I thought (by implication, what you think) about CERN's
newly-opened super-collider in Switzerland. If you have any thoughts on the
matter, could you post them on your website, or at least give me a hint or
link to pursue, to get a truly Catholic take on this?
Thanks, and God bless,
Hendrik Mills
R. Sungenis: Hendrik, the super collider in Switzerland is designed to break apart the proton in order to find even smaller particles. These smaller particles are necessary to modern science because the Big Bang theory cannot even be imagined, much less have any evidence, without particles much smaller than the proton. For example, modern cosmogony really can't work without a particle dubbed the Higgs Boson. It is a theoretical particle, but needed to bring stability to an already unstable theory. To date, man's machines have not been able to break apart the proton. It is one of nature's most stable particles. We write about this phenomenon in Galileo Was Wrong. My prediction is that they will not be able to break it apart. Yes, you heard it hear first. And even if they manage to do so (or convince us that they did), they aren't going to find anything except things resembling proton particles. What they are looking for is something far too small for their machines to find. They need particles in the Planck dimensions to make the Big Bang work, particles on the order of 10^-33cm in size. The proton is 10^-12cm in size, so they figure, if these Planck particles exist, they might be inside the proton. The reality is, they are on a wild goose chase. This experiment is just a desperate effort to provide some propaganda for the Big Bang theory. They will probably spin the results to support the Big Bang, as they have spun all the other evidence in cosmogony to their favor. The truth is, the Big Bang theory is bankrupt. Even secular scientists recognize this (e.g., steady state theorists). Both of them are bankrupt, however, because there is simply no solid evidence for either of them. The only possible way for something to come from nothing is by an act of divine fiat, namely, the creation, ex nihilo, that Genesis indicates to us. And contrary to many theistic evolutionists today, Genesis does not support the Big Bang theory, because Genesis is clear that the earth was created first, not the light. So people can make their choice. Either God was lying to us when He said He created the earth first, or modern science is lying to us when they claim that the Big Bang came first and the earth came 9 billion years later. Modern science has no evidence for the latter, but it does have evidence of the former, for all the heavenly bodies, including the cosmic microwave radiation, has earth as its center. Science has shown us this for the past 40 years. Unfortunately, scientists don't want to believe what they see in their own telescopes, because they love the darkness and thus they won't come to the light (John 3:19)
I hope that helps a little. If you have any other questions, just let me know.
Robert
