The Discovery channel aired another show with the potential to end the world just the other night. The mystery of the crystal skulls (Like that of Indiana Jones' latest movie) where in if we do not bring all 13 skulls together before the Mayan calender runs out in 2012, then we are doomed.
Of course there are Many schools of thought concerning the end of the world. What if the end meant the beginning of something more? What if the apocalypse meant merely a shift in thought or awareness? Maybe something dramatic will occur on that date where it changes us as a people forever, like contact with an alien race or computers becoming self aware? The end doesn't have to be so menacing. Fact is there are more ways than one to end the world and the more we discover or create the more real it becomes. With the year 2000 passing relatively uneventfully we are holding onto 2012 now to give us a sign.
Whatever happens, let's hope it's for the better and not the worst. Humanity is a troubled species, but we're also a wonderfully creative and fascinating species that is working towards a better place (for the most part) .
People are inherently good, I believe that, and the more we believe that the less likely it is some galactic bad karma will destroy us.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The end may come sooner than we thought
'Black hole' machine could destroy planet: lawsuit
Updated Sat. Apr. 5 2008 7:04 AM ET
Parminder Parmar, CTV.ca News
An American and a Spaniard have launched a lawsuit to stop scientists from firing up a machine they fear could destroy not just life on Earth but the planet itself.
International scientists, including dozens from Canada, are about to launch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre long particle accelerator built near Geneva, Switzerland. It will shoot beams of protons at each other in an effort to recreate conditions that resemble what the universe might have been like in the milliseconds after the Big Bang.
"We want to probe the most basic particles and constituents (and we're) trying to understand how matter was made," Robert McPherson, a University of Victoria physics professor who is working on the project, told CTV.ca in a phone interview from Vancouver.
In the process, scientists may end up creating miniature black holes -- areas of space that have gravitational pulls so strong that not even light can escape.
The more matter a black hole pulls in, the stronger it becomes. And that's what worries Walter Wagner, the American who is suing to temporarily stop the project. He says the creation of these black holes here on Earth, no matter how small, may unleash a chain reaction that could destroy the planet.
Wagner says there's a possibility that black holes could just get bigger and bigger as they pull more and more matter into themselves.
"Eventually, all of Earth would fall into such growing micro-black-holes, converting Earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, and the (International Space Station)," according to court papers Wagner, along with a citizen of Spain, filed in Honolulu.
In other words, Wagner asserts the LHC is a machine that will end up causing the Earth to eat itself -- perhaps in less than a century. It may sound fantastic, like a plotline out of a James Bond movie where an evil scientist holds the earth for ransom with a deadly weapon, but Wagner says the possibility isn't science fiction.
"Science fiction can be very strange and sometimes it can come very true. This is in the realm of possibilities where fiction can become fact," Wagner told CTV.ca in a telephone interview from his home in Honolulu.
Wagner, an education consultant who studied physics at Berkeley, says scientists working on the project haven't done enough studies to make sure the scenario he envisions won't actually occur. The suit -- which is filed against various U.S. agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency -- aims to get a restraining order to stop work on the project until more safety studies are completed.
McPherson admits small black holes may be created, but he says the concerns are overblown. He says there is virtually no possibility that any black hole that scientists may create at the Large Hadron Collider will end up absorbing the Earth.
"Assuming our wildest fantasies, how much matter can one of these black holes consume in a second, in a year, or even in several billion years?" asks McPherson.
"A black hole we could make at the LHC would only consume a tiny fraction of a gram of matter from Earth. There's no possibility of causing any damage to the Earth," he said.
McPherson says the black holes will decay and disappear quickly. He adds that what scientists are trying to do in a laboratory setting at the LHC happens in nature daily.
"The Earth is constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays. Many of them have much higher energies than what we can create with the LHC. If something dangerous was being made in these interactions it would already have happened in cosmic ray interactions," he said.
But that's no comfort to Wagner. He says the LHC is like a factory that creates a waste product without any way to dispose of it. If he's correct, the factory won't get rid of the byproduct. Instead, the byproduct will dispose of the factory -- and everything else.
Updated Sat. Apr. 5 2008 7:04 AM ET
Parminder Parmar, CTV.ca News
An American and a Spaniard have launched a lawsuit to stop scientists from firing up a machine they fear could destroy not just life on Earth but the planet itself.
International scientists, including dozens from Canada, are about to launch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre long particle accelerator built near Geneva, Switzerland. It will shoot beams of protons at each other in an effort to recreate conditions that resemble what the universe might have been like in the milliseconds after the Big Bang.
"We want to probe the most basic particles and constituents (and we're) trying to understand how matter was made," Robert McPherson, a University of Victoria physics professor who is working on the project, told CTV.ca in a phone interview from Vancouver.
In the process, scientists may end up creating miniature black holes -- areas of space that have gravitational pulls so strong that not even light can escape.
The more matter a black hole pulls in, the stronger it becomes. And that's what worries Walter Wagner, the American who is suing to temporarily stop the project. He says the creation of these black holes here on Earth, no matter how small, may unleash a chain reaction that could destroy the planet.
Wagner says there's a possibility that black holes could just get bigger and bigger as they pull more and more matter into themselves.
"Eventually, all of Earth would fall into such growing micro-black-holes, converting Earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, and the (International Space Station)," according to court papers Wagner, along with a citizen of Spain, filed in Honolulu.
In other words, Wagner asserts the LHC is a machine that will end up causing the Earth to eat itself -- perhaps in less than a century. It may sound fantastic, like a plotline out of a James Bond movie where an evil scientist holds the earth for ransom with a deadly weapon, but Wagner says the possibility isn't science fiction.
"Science fiction can be very strange and sometimes it can come very true. This is in the realm of possibilities where fiction can become fact," Wagner told CTV.ca in a telephone interview from his home in Honolulu.
Wagner, an education consultant who studied physics at Berkeley, says scientists working on the project haven't done enough studies to make sure the scenario he envisions won't actually occur. The suit -- which is filed against various U.S. agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency -- aims to get a restraining order to stop work on the project until more safety studies are completed.
McPherson admits small black holes may be created, but he says the concerns are overblown. He says there is virtually no possibility that any black hole that scientists may create at the Large Hadron Collider will end up absorbing the Earth.
"Assuming our wildest fantasies, how much matter can one of these black holes consume in a second, in a year, or even in several billion years?" asks McPherson.
"A black hole we could make at the LHC would only consume a tiny fraction of a gram of matter from Earth. There's no possibility of causing any damage to the Earth," he said.
McPherson says the black holes will decay and disappear quickly. He adds that what scientists are trying to do in a laboratory setting at the LHC happens in nature daily.
"The Earth is constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays. Many of them have much higher energies than what we can create with the LHC. If something dangerous was being made in these interactions it would already have happened in cosmic ray interactions," he said.
But that's no comfort to Wagner. He says the LHC is like a factory that creates a waste product without any way to dispose of it. If he's correct, the factory won't get rid of the byproduct. Instead, the byproduct will dispose of the factory -- and everything else.
Monday, April 7, 2008
The only way to see the future, is if the future has already been written.
As the book suggests, the only way to see the future, is if the future has already been written. Thus, fate sets your course, not decisions, not free will, fate has your life planned at birth and there can be no change. Destiny is your master.
Nothing you do is going to change that, in fact, everything you do can only move you closer to your destiny, as set out by fate.
Suffocating isn't it?
Apocalyptic.
www.the-judas-syndrome.com
Nothing you do is going to change that, in fact, everything you do can only move you closer to your destiny, as set out by fate.
Suffocating isn't it?
Apocalyptic.
www.the-judas-syndrome.com
Sunday, March 9, 2008
The Happening, By M. Night Shyamalan
Yet another apocalyptic themed movie is on it's way to theatres. The happening, by writer director M. Night Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense fame, looks to be about the end of humanity. The trailers thus far are vague, but it would appear a virus is killing off humanity one city/state at a time.
I guess the big question will be, what's the twist?, as in all of Shyamalan's former pictures. Let's hope this one redeems M. Night after Lady in the Water, and The Village... neither really any good, even the ending of signs was pretty awful.
Good to see the Apocalyptic genre still going strong. Always an interesting theme for any story. I'll view it and review it on this blog as I did I am Legend.
Keep up to date on the Apocalypse at The Judas Syndrome website.
To see the trailer for The Happening visit this link
I guess the big question will be, what's the twist?, as in all of Shyamalan's former pictures. Let's hope this one redeems M. Night after Lady in the Water, and The Village... neither really any good, even the ending of signs was pretty awful.
Good to see the Apocalyptic genre still going strong. Always an interesting theme for any story. I'll view it and review it on this blog as I did I am Legend.
Keep up to date on the Apocalypse at The Judas Syndrome website.
To see the trailer for The Happening visit this link
Monday, February 11, 2008
2012 and the new awakening
Looks like some of us aren't all doom and gloom over the coming year - 2012. In fact many see it as an opportunity. Visit http://2012magic.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1507406%3ABlogPost%3A241 and you'll get a good read on energies and a world wide telepathic event that is sure to take place in 2012.
Apocalypse, by definition, means change, not necessarily destruction. So maybe we'll all find ourselves listening to each others thoughts and thus changing as a species rather than the poles shifting, asteroids or comets falling to earth, the return of the messiah or anything quite so devastating as all that to our current existence.
What do you think?...
Don't forget to check out what's new ion the world of apocalyptic theory as well as movies and books here!
Apocalypse, by definition, means change, not necessarily destruction. So maybe we'll all find ourselves listening to each others thoughts and thus changing as a species rather than the poles shifting, asteroids or comets falling to earth, the return of the messiah or anything quite so devastating as all that to our current existence.
What do you think?...
Don't forget to check out what's new ion the world of apocalyptic theory as well as movies and books here!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Jericho returns to Television
Jericho, in danger of dissapearing altogether has made it's way back onto the small screen! For those of us that love the genre of the apocalypse and the stories it spawns of survival and struggle this is a major score.
Get all your recaps at http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ so you can continue where we left off.
Here are 100 reasons to watch Jericho
Here is another reason to love the apocalypse genre
Watch for the novel The Judas Syndrome.
Get all your recaps at http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ so you can continue where we left off.
Here are 100 reasons to watch Jericho
Here is another reason to love the apocalypse genre
Watch for the novel The Judas Syndrome.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Apocalypse, 2012
Another novel has just been released called Apocalypse, 2012 by Lawrence E. Joseph. In new age circles, the idea that a world wide cataclysm is going to take place in December of the year 2012 has been gaining in popularity for a long time, thanks mostly to the Mayan Calender coming to an abrupt and absolute end.
Of course 'apocalypse' can mean more than merely the end, it is the end of things as we know them, perhaps 2012 will usher in a new era of understanding,. It's all speculative, but then, what end of the world scenario hasn't been?!
The author adds science based threats to the earth to make the book believable and if you're at all interested in the science behind the end then this might just be the book for you.
For all things apocalyptic visit this link
Of course 'apocalypse' can mean more than merely the end, it is the end of things as we know them, perhaps 2012 will usher in a new era of understanding,. It's all speculative, but then, what end of the world scenario hasn't been?!
The author adds science based threats to the earth to make the book believable and if you're at all interested in the science behind the end then this might just be the book for you.
For all things apocalyptic visit this link
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