The Last of the Scientists

March 23, 2006 at 8:47 pm | In Commercial, Uncategorized |

Working for CERN has been very educational on a variety of levels. The idea of the photos was to help dispel the myth of the ‘science nurd’ but in fact I discovered that most of the scientists I met did not resemble the stereotype in any way. (That, of course, implies that some of them do match the stereotype but they could just be a co-incidental statistical glich)

These guys at Imperial are making the data handling equipment hat connects to the other end of the stuff that is being made at RAL in Didcot. They were more like some kind of cool dot-com than cutting edge particle physicists, and the pub lunch confirmed that impression. They even agreed that $4billion is a lot of money to spend on something that the man in the street may never see benefit form, but we concluded that as it helps to keep us all employed it’s probably best to keep quiet and get on with it.

The best thing for me about this whole project is the amount of our world and life itself that science simply has no ideas about. The ‘science disproves God’ thing is widely believed amongst the university types that I find discussing these questions on the internet, yet the guys I spoke to who are at the cutting edge of the quest to understand the fundamental nature of matter and the very reason for the existence of the universe have no qualms in admitting that 1. they know only a fraction 2. that they are not even sure about some of that.

It is our philosophy that discounts God, not the facts. Its so sad that millions are missing out on faith, on their rightful relationship with their creator, because they think ‘the men in white coats’ know best, when in fact they know next to nothing and what they do know often has little to say about God.

Okay- sermon over!

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