9.12.2008

Oh, right


IF YOU ARE reading this editorial over breakfast, and neither you nor your raisin bran has been sucked into a black hole, the worst fears about the Large Hadron Collider have not yet been realized.


So I guess that worked out, then. Which is good because things would get way confusing if it hadn't.


It would be strange and sad if, in the course of establishing how and why matter emerged out of nothingness, an experiment were to consume a planetful of people who might be interested in the answer.

[From Accelerator anxiety - The Boston Globe]
And who would be around to appreciate the strangeness and sadness?

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