This bit of speculation,
[COLOR=#810081]A 'New Dimension' at the LHC[/COLOR], on the CERN facility brings to mind the origins of the Subtle Knife, in Philip Pullman's
Dark Materials sequel to the
Golden Compass. The inter dimensional knife was a result of such as the CERN collider. So far, fiction.
The physicists at Batavia's Fermilab might find Higgs first. That large computer sifting of data is necessary reminds me of the House episode where the automated blood tests did not reveal parasitic worms until much later when a human viewed the blood. Television sure, but increasing amounts of data at CERN and likewise from LIGO (search for undetected gravity waves) have caused me to wonder at what we may be missing in the noise. Are we shaping the noise by our computer programmed search parameters?
Already I see signs of H.P. Lovecraft's thought in this thread epitomized by the United States fundamentalist theists rejection of science and pursuit of Creationism..
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�The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality... That we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.� - H. P. Lovecraft
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