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yes man and womans search for meaning and knowledge etc is insatiable but it's just bringing them a little closer to the God head - her and him.

he is a fool who turns away from the Lord -

you are incapable of making the seed that produces the flower you love best etc etc - we can till the land and sow the crops but who provides the rain and even the manure and of course the sun and the bees - not alan that's for sure

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If we start a thread on this one Gumbud it will go on forever and we will still be split into two camps - the believers like you and the non-believers like me.

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You never know, one Camp maybe out too smoke the other Camp out

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If you do have to camp out Spitty, be sure to camp on holy ground, blessed by Pope Pious the tent, nothing like a combination of soil and soul for spiritual comfort.

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Swimfeeders, I have to agree with Gumbud; Its one thing knowing about all this stuff, but to offer it in an easily digestible form is something else.
You appear to have mastered both......Don't you just love science....

PS:- Morning Jem.

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And a very good morning to you too Bob. I'm off now for a week or so on a mission of mercy more or less, see you soon.

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Safe journey Jem, look forward to reading you when you return....

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All I need to understand about the HC is Up and Atom...after all I'm just a women for gawds sake.

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Hi

Well Morticia is still safe and well Chez Pigsty.

The LHC has finished it's first run at the new higher energy levels and none of us seem to have have ended up in an alternative Universe.

The next experiment is about to start

"For now, though, the focus shifts to the studying lead ion collisions, in which the hundreds of protons and neutrons in two lead nuclei are smashed into one another at energies of over a few trillion electronvolts each. This creates a miniscule fireball in which everything “melts” into a quark-gluon plasma.

Quark-gluon plasma, as the name suggests, is a mixture of quarks -- the fundamental particles that make up protons and neutrons, and gluons -- the force carriers that bind quarks together.

Scientists believe that for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, the universe was composed entirely of a hot, dense soup of this plasma. And, in order to recreate these conditions, massive ions -- such as gold or lead -- are made to collide head-on. Scientists hope the collision debris will yield exotic particles like pions, kaons, antiprotons and antineutrons."

I am off to the LHC early next year, my son has arranged tickets for me.

Assuming that I have not been incinerated alive, or been transported outside of known time and space. I will keep you posted.

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Assuming that I have not been incinerated alive, or been transported outside of known time and space. I will keep you posted.

"You may be gone some time"