The Lighter Side of Particle Physics and Global Economics

Global economics and high energy particle physics are two esoteric subjects that most of the general public would care less to wrap there heads around. Making and spending money is similar to the experiments that scientists carry out in a huge super colliders.  As we go about our daily lives gradually accumulating digital credits to cover our expenses we quickly going about spending them and they quickly disappear into mysterious black holes before we can get a glimpse of where they went, much like tiny high energy particles.

Then as we watch the daily news we have talking heads like  Ben S. Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, trying to explain how billions of tax dollars have quickly disappeared into mysterious global ogre-sized multinational banks. We shake our heads as Ben reassures us there is a jobless recovery taking place and there is some type of modest growth in the previous quarter that is relatively larger than the last quarter according to statistics from a trusted source, etc. He also tells the economy has contracted yet is expanding if you look at things from different perspective, once again according to trusted sources.

Okay enough of that, let’s talk about Large Hadron Super Collider that scientists are tinkering with somewhere deep underground in Switzerland. Scientists are squirming around with ants in their pants anticipating what might emerge when minuscule particles are whirled around in giant supercooled racetracks into a head-on collision. Rest assured that billions of digital Euro credits have disappeared to build this monster, in itself a monetary black hole, with the possibility of creating a black hole or something more mysterious.

The scientists at CERN are very similar to Ben S. Bernanke and his cadre of PhDs at the Federal Reserve.  The suits at the Federal Reserve throw around the arcane esoteric jargon of economics trying to explain to us how they printed billions of dollars and it quickly disappeared into a black hole. The scientists at CERN talk about the mysterious Higgs Boson particle and how they might tear a hole in the time space continuum and something might emerge. They disregard the billions of Euro dollars that have been sucked into this monstrous black hole, besides, money is a economist’s concern. The scientists’ concerns are what might come out of this mysterious experiment, but if it is a jobless recovery that emerges they will quickly want to shut it down. Besides,Ben S. Bernanke wouldn’t want any competition from his PhD cohorts.

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