Papi

I will be eagerly checking news on Sept 10, to see what they come up with

^^ :LOLz:

Really hope you took more from this topic than that Talikhaak : )

You're just mad I blocked/deleted you from msn, bhainjee its not good to hold grudges.

ever since u left the mod team, i think their IQs dropped

good going!

This is your first warning for personal attack, rules state it should be a ban but I won't ban you just watch your tone of voice, learn to respect your elders if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. You don't like how the forum is moderated you are more than welcome to post elsewhere.

thand rakh oye !!!!

Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears

Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008 By EBEN HARRELL

A press photographer takes a picture of the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. Martial Trezzini / EPA

// ad = adFactory.getAd(88, 31); ad.setPosition(8) ad.write(); From the flagellants of the Middle Ages to the doomsayers of Y2K, humanity has always been prone to good old-fashioned the-end-is-nigh hysteria. The latest cause for concern: that the earth will be destroyed and the galaxy gobbled up by an ever-increasing black hole next week.

On Sept. 10, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into each other to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hope of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month.

Critics of the LHC say the high-energy experiment might create a mini black hole that could expand to dangerous, Earth-eating proportions. On Aug. 26, Professor Otto Rossler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karis University of Tubingen, filed a lawsuit against CERN with the European Court of Human Rights that argued, with no understatement, that such a scenario would violate the right to life of European citizens and pose a threat to the rule of law. Last March, two American environmentalists filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Honolulu seeking to force the U.S. government to withdraw its participation in the experiment. The lawsuits have in turn spawned several websites, chat rooms and petitions — and led to alarming headlines around the world (Britain's Sun newspaper on Sept. 1: "End of the World Due in 9 Days").

Should we be scared? No. In June, CERN published a safety report, reviewed by a group of external scientists, ruling out the possibility of dangerous black holes. It said that even if tiny black holes were to be formed at CERN — a big if — they would evaporate almost instantaneously due to Hawking Radiation, a phenomenon named for the British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose theories show that black holes not only swallow up the light, energy and matter around them, but also leak it all back out at an accelerating pace. According to Hawking, if tiny black holes occurred at CERN, they would evaporate before they got a chance to do any damage. (Even if Hawking's theories prove to be wrong — no one has yet witnessed black-hole evaporation — scientists at CERN say the LHC's collisions are already known to be harmless: an equivalent amount of energy is produced hundreds of thousands of times a day by cosmic rays colliding with the earth and other objects in the cosmos — always without incident.)

After taking in the results of CERN's report, the European Court rejected Rossler's request last week for an emergency injunction that would have stopped the LHC (it will still hear his lawsuit). The U.S. suit is pending, but CERN spokesman James Gillies said that even if it is successful the experiment will go ahead without U.S. participation.

"The U.S. court has no jurisdiction over our equipment. It could pull American scientists out of the experiment, but that would just be a great shame for them. The LHC presents no risk. What it does do is hold the promise of substantially enriching humanity by providing insight into the mysteries of the universe. It's a tremendously exciting time for physicists here and around the world," he said.

Scientists believe the LHC's results will help fill in gaps in the Standard Model, the far-reaching set of equations on the interaction of subatomic particles that is the closest that modern physics comes to a testable "theory of everything." For example, scientists believe the LHC will produce a particle, the Higgs Boson, that will end debate over how matter in the universe acquires mass. Or, it could even provide evidence for more ambitious theories of the universe, such as string theory, which unites quantum mechanics and general relativity, the previously known laws of the small and large that are currently incompatible in the Standard Model.

Despite these exciting prospects, however, physicists studying the cosmos at CERN and other accelerators still face a fundamental dilemma: to explain the awesome scale of their work while calming the public's inevitable trepidation. There remains a credibility gap surrounding high-profile physics, after all: The most tangible results of atomic research in the last 50 years have been bombs capable of ending all life on earth. CERN officials refer to the laboratory as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics because they feel "nuclear" in the literal translation carries negative implications, and tour guides at the LHC are quick to point out that the accelerator has no weapons applications.

But it's not just physicists whose work provokes strong and often irrational fear, according to Professor Robin Williams, director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh. He points out that the millennial anxiety about scientific and technological breakthroughs predates particle physics. When the locomotive was first conceived, for example, even some engineers predicted catastrophe resulting from the human body's inability to withstand the strains of high-speed travel. The word "vaccine" comes from the Latin word for cow, "vacca" — the first vaccinations, against smallpox, used bovine ingredients, leading to widespread fear that the injections would turn humans into cows.

But Williams also believes that the flip side of such fear is faith in the redemptive potential of science (there are equally irrational websites about CERN, for example, that predict the LHC will create wormholes to distant corners of the universe where humanity can escape to other inhabitable planets). Williams wrote in an e-mail: "I have come to see that in their early days, new technology and scientific breakthroughs often serve as Rorschach tests — a phenomenon about which we have little concrete understanding, onto which contemporary social anxieties (and dreams) can readily be projected. As a result we find (often polarized) utopian and dystopian visions being articulated." Humanity will certainly survive the LHC's experiment, Williams added, but so too will its darkest fears about its own destructive potential, and hope for its future.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,...1838947,00.html

Who is rumi? :umm:

maryada says that a body may be disposed of through fire, water, or burial. we're not supposed to be hung up on rituals. when the kes falls, it's no longer part of our living being, right? gurbani says that wtihout the soul, the body is a shell, it's dust. so deal with it however you like, but don't ritualize it.

collect what you can, but if some goes down the drain or into the vacuum, then don't stress. god is pretty forgiving. do your best and don't freak out about the little things.

we should focus more on naam and nitnem, less on dust.

WAH !!!

Pardhan

Parvaan

:o I can't believe I forgot !!! :2:

chalo, hun ta ho gaya

happy 29th bai

eda viah karao hun. ik pasey shutea (studies to) doojey pasey phasa dena enu (viah ch)

LOL under paid da bacha

if you say here what your salary is, no one is going to think you are under paid

baki, if u get $20K/annum more, maybe finally you will buy a car *hint hint* :lol:

Theres only ONE reason why people get engaged/married early:... KAAM!!

you may not realise it, but it is true!!!

In your opinion it's true.

Everyone's definition of early is different. I know folks that think that getting married at 25 is early while others think that its late.

What is darkness? It's just absence of light. In the same why, "badness" is just absence of "goodness", nothing more.

To do parchar, you have to become parchar

The very famous shabad of Dhan Guru Raam Daas Sahib Jee

http://sikhitothemax.com/page.asp?ShabadID=1152

^Tell about how you get more FATEHs when you are in your kurta pajama thn your usual salwar kameez, you look stunnin in that though, Inshallah!! :happy:

That is old news man Dhari one is new

OYE!!! keri salwar kameez :umm:

:lol: @ inshallah

I bet I am more negative than you. Tied dhari and all .....

The days i leave my dhari khuli, I tend to get more people saying fateh to me. The same people just walk by, pretending to not see me on days when I have it tied. :rolleyes:

Someone check a sateek !!!

Didn't you know? These people have a "Gursikhi" meter .... which looks at how one is dressed and gives them a rating from 1 to 10. 10 being the best :rolleyes:

waheguru reminds me of this:

rom rom mih bsih murwir ]

rom rom mehi basehi muraar ||

and on each and every hair, the Lord abides.

Bhagat Kabeer Ji

Raag Gauree

344

If you read the whole shabad, you will get a different meaning In my opinion, the shabad has absolutely nothing to do with hair.

WAH !!!

How can you prepare for it when you have absolutely no clue what awaits you out there.

ina di aisi de tesi, merey shoney shehar da naa kharab kardey aa :hit

*sighs*

A son is a son till he has a wife. A daughter is a daughter till the end of life.

WAH !!!!

LOL I was joking, my pind isn't really kala bakra. I just thought it was a funny name

I don't even know where it is :umm:

Well, it doesn't really mater what you want to practice. A lehra machine plays a rhythmic cycle, repeatedly. It will keep you in beat.