Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ain't no black hole swallowing me today!

I'm awake (and, thus, alive) this morning, which means that the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva, Switzerland, which came online at 1:30am EST did not produce strangelets which could have turned the Earth into a lifeless, cosmic lump of goo. Nor did it produce the feared black hole that could have instantly swallowed us all.

I have to admit that even though the reassurances were made, I did feel a sense of dread as I went to sleep last night. It's hard not to, when something like that is totally out of your control. But I'm alive and well (at least subjectively) and glad to be off to Ohio today.

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