waiting for the end of the world
As many of you will have noticed, we weren’t vaporised by
a giant black hole on the way to work this morning and (despite that electrical
storm yesterday afternoon) everything goes on as normal.
Unless we were
all wiped out and re-created in an alternate but identical universe. I’d check
your jeans still fit if I were you.
Fortunately, the scientific community
know exactly how to communicate the finer points of atomic collisions which
commenced at CERN this morning in a Swiss bunker (where all good things start).
That’s right, they’ve done a rap:
More great photos like the one above can be found here.
Alarmingly, someone has pointed out that the keyboard player in D:Ream, that band that did the song
"Things can only get better" (used as the New Labour election anthem), is one of the scientists working on
this. If I'd known that before they switched on the 'big bang machine' I might have been a bit more worried about the earth being swallowed up by a black hole.