CERN, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research), well known particular physics laboratory with 20 member states and 8 observers , founded in 1954 for the high tech researches for the scientific improvement in physic. The name of CERN is known as the core of the scientific knowledge since the most of the revolutionary steps are taken in its laboratories and attendants of scientist from all around the world. What is there to attract the top scientists to be attracted in the core? There is no doubt that it is not because of Dan Brown and his books, but the love of knowledge and eternal wonder for the unknown.
On the official website of CERN, mission of the organization is described as “Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.”
It is obvious that the attempt is very much seen as acting like the hand of God and almost the acting as God and making researched on unknown. That is why; internet has been the online harbour of global rumours about the important test which will take place tomorrow. There is no doubt that tomorrow will not be the same, and it will be remembered as an important moment. Even though there happens nothing, this will prove how good the paved ways of the science up to now and where should be traced back and found the most reliable theory in the cumulative achieves of the science. We can certainly not take theories as granted and assume that they are laws; I do not think any scientists think so. Unfortunately, the public is quite misdirected about the concepts of “law” and “theory”, the main differences between them. This is why some people are so ready to react against the theory of evaluation without not thinking much about what the “theory” means scientifically. It is obvious that the theory itself is an attempt to explain a situation, object, being etc. and when this attempt is considered as “the fact”, it is generally named as “law”; just like “gravitation law”. The easiest way one can do is to refer to Oxford Dictionary and I will refer to that in order to be clearer; “1-a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something; especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. 2-an idea accounting for or justifying something. 3- A set of principles on which an activity is based.”. Then, my word is to ones who are that much being in opposition to any sorts of “theories” by thinking them as “facts” presented by the science and putting the scientists into the place of advocate of devils, please turn of your computers and hand off the technological life and all the benefit we get through the attempts of scientists. I am sure the reaction is that, “no it is not possible”, because there are many good things we achieved with the science, and scientist will always have some theories and not necessarily we have to like all of them. I do also try to understand the concerns of the religious people from all around the world, but the end all we need is a bit more of a common understanding and trust in goodwill of the people.
Going back the where had started; CERN, tomorrow the first beam will be tested under the name of Large Hadron Collider and in this test “almost a minor simulation of the big bang will take place”, at least this is what expected and it might certainly cost few more billions of Euros, and endless efforts and lives of hundreds and thousands of more scientists lives in order to gain more information about the essence of nature and the “creation of the world”. Still many of the people do not put trust in to big bang theory which was first come to existence after 1912, with the attempts of Vesto Slipher and ideas on “spiral nebula” and this idea later on improved by Alexander Friedmannn, Albert Einstein and so on. Strongly enough Georges Lemaitre was a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic Priest, predicted the recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the universe. It is quite surprising to see that the cumulative knowledge of the science in the specific matter of “big bang” also contributed by a priest. Why not? Because the eternal wonder about the unknown is inside of all the people of the world and for some these attempts are “a way of justifying the existence of the God” since they are already believing to God and the miracles of him. On the other hand, religious people who are opposing the theory of “Big Bang” should be supporting the researches of CERN, since there will be more information about the theory and findings will prove or shake the standing foundations of the theory.
This is a chance for all to know the more for all of us and tomorrow is long waited, unforgettable day for all of us and there is no doubt that we will benefit out of the experiments of tomorrow in upcoming years in the different parts of technology. I consider myself lucky to see something imagined and searched for many scientists like Einstein who passed away, and now I am able to see this historical moment.
Gokhan KURTARAN
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