The Search for the God Particle and Life
“We are a bastard life form, born of unknown parents, with no relatives, no friends, no outside contact. WE are human, animal, and plant, isolated and abandoned on a planetary island…and WE are increasingly lonely.”
(Jeremy Heil, Ted Meyer, Terry Schmidt, and Matt Whitten—Group 1, 2002)
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In 1984, a meteorite called ALH84001 was found in Allan Hills ice field, Antartica. Founded by an annual expedition, the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Meteorite Program, it was preserved for study in the JSC Meteorite Processing Laboratory, but not recognized as containing possible Martian origins not identified until 1993. The eldest of the 12 meteorites matching Martian chemistry, it is three times as old as any of them.
Recent high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and laser mass spectrometry have allowed us to locate recently found small bacteria on Earth called nanobacteria, prompting the NASA teams to look further into the ALH84001 meteorite for this minute life form. A previous theory with this find is that life may have not originated on Earth but on another planet, arriving via meteoric vehicles. This process is called Transpermia, or transfer of life between planets.
The possibility of extraterrestrial life on another planet has long appealed to the scientific field, with astrophysicist Stephen Hawking stating, “Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on earth.” He has states that alien life or life form on another planet may carry diseases which “may” infect us due to the difference in our DNAs. And CERN is searching even deeper for the truth of God and life with the LHC machine and its search for the Bing Bang theory, and what actually happened during this moment in history.
In October of 2006, Stephen Hawkings had visited CERN in Geneva for about a week, specifically the Theory Unit of the Physics Department at CERN. His visit signified the importance of CERN as a central meeting place for the highest and best minds in physics. Yet when CERN turned on the particle machine today, he bet $100 that their experiment would not find an elusive particle seen as the holy grail of cosmic science.
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