Charmed Particles by Chrissy Kolaya

Author:Chrissy Kolaya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Charmed Particles
ISBN: 9781938103179
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2015-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

In the next issue of the Herald-Gleaner, there appeared yet another letter to the editor—this one by Dr. Abhijat Mital, theoretical physicist, National Accelerator Research Laboratory.

To all of my friends and neighbors who ask, What good is this science? To what practical purpose? I say this: We don’t know what will be revealed to us by the experiments made possible by the Superconducting Super Collider.

We don’t know, and that is exhilarating. It is the worst kind of stagnation of the imagination, of passion for life, and of curiosity to suppose that we already know everything worth knowing. What is progress, I ask, if not a belief, a faith in the idea that there is always more to know?

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