Bench views, chat, debate and discussion about Mudeford Quay, Christchurch, Dorset, CERN, the end of the world and does it matter?

Today's bench is located at Mudeford Quay in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Dorset which I visited earlier this year before this end of the world deluge of rain set in that we are experiencing in the UK at the moment.

Talking about the end of the world. CERN is starting its new giant atom smashing machine Wednesday next week, according to the BBC Today Programme this morning and the good news is that it probably won't create a black hole that will expand to swallow up the earth.

On then positive side, the new research could identify yet smaller particles that will show what our universe is made of before it changed into its present form of planets, stars etc. The new research could therefore take us back to our universe's moment of creation and further our understanding of this important moment.

I suppose for many who believe what it says in the Bible about the creation of everything, there is nothing to find out. Apparently, this includes the prospective new Vice President of America who has been dubbed a Creationist many times in the British media.

Those who fear that a black hole could be created by the new CERN experiment say that, if it does happen, it will happen very quickly - in less than a blink of the eye.

Would the rest of the universe miss us - after all there are black holes raging out there at the centres of many galaxies, including our own.

I doubt it. Probably those intelligent lifeforms that are out there would be as indifferent to our passing as we would be of theirs, even if we thought they existed which many would deny.

Of course, if you are a Creationist, you would believe there is an old (white?) man sitting on a cloud (that would be an interstellar dust cloud, I presume) who would sigh and say 'well they were fun for a while - what a pity!'

I will leave you with a picture that is perhaps more uplifting image which is of the sea birds wheeling and crying at Mudeford as they fight for bread scraps somebody was throwing out to them.

Your comments are welcome and indeed what it is all about - but please don't quote the Bible, Koran or anything similar. Thank you.

Bye for now

Rob

Rob Hopcott - online author