Large Hadron Collider, Black Holes and what the hell am I doing at work??

The Large Hadron Collider supposedly did its thang this morning. And the good news is we’re all still here… just as I was hoping we’d be. Having said that – it dawned on me just a few minutes before the smashing took place that I was at work… Sado. I mean really. On the off chance that we might actually have blown up the world, why did I dutifully come to work? I mean I don’t hate my job (or love it) but seriously – what was I thinking?

Clearly I wasn’t not too worried about the random smashing of atoms. Although in defiance of science (or whatever it is they are doing!) a few of us here smashed some atoms today as well: Stomp - stomp - stomp! (So there!)

In all seriousness (and also so that when everyone else talks about it I can add in some useful(less) tit-bits of information) I have tried reading the Wikipedia page on the collider; but I have to be honest: I only got as far as blah blah ZZZzzzzzz ZZZZzzzzz… where? what? now?

Which is to say that I got sucked into some weird black hole for a moment. Scary stuff - I don’t recommend it. Oh, and be careful with what you do with your atoms – you just never know what’s likely to happen!