Engage!

Ooh, the excitement is mounting, can't you feel it? No? You mean you aren't on the edge of your seat, breathless with anticipation, as a team of scientists just outside Geneva fire up the Large Hadron Collider? Have you been hiding under a rock?

For those that don't know what it is:

"The LHC is the latest and most powerful in a series of particle accelerators that, over the last 70 years, have allowed us to penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of matter and further and further back in time. The next steps in the journey will bring new knowledge about the beginning of our Universe and how it works, as the LHC recreates, on a microscale, conditions that existed billionths of a second after the birth of our Universe."

Sounds exciting, doesn't it!

The only problem is that no one really knows what'll happen when the men in white coats press the on button next month. Some say nothing will happen, some say the fabled Higgs boson will appear, and others claim that we might tear a hole in the fabric of this dimension, letting loose the denizens of hell, opening a black hole, and causing the destruction of the entire solar system!

I hope it's live on Sky!


Listening to 'Club Foot' by Kasabian.