Reader ThePete apparently pays closer attention to my sources than I do, because when reading up on the particle physicists reassuring us that no, their supercollider won’t, in fact cause the destruction of the earth, I inadvertently linked to a statement from scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, and not the Swiss physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva… which means the evil Swiss may yet have designs on destroying you, me, and all the pocket calculators in the world. Yeah I know, easy mistake to make, right?
It’s a lot like the line from that famous movie, “Once again Dr. Jones, we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot collide with a stream of charged particles at near the speed of light.”
Oh, and it turns out the CERN collider won’t be in use until May of 2008 because the eggheads broke the damn thing.
Sleep tight!
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