World Ends Tomorrow - Part 2

Part 1 was the firing up of the Large Hadron Collider and was an anticlimax of giant proportions but Part 2 tomorrow, tomorrow may well be different as a 5m asteroid is due to augur in somewhere in Northern Sudan at 2:47UT. A 5m asteroid might not seem like a whole hell of a lot but I'd rather not be too near the thing when it hits though Southern Europe and Northern Africa will see a spectecular re-entry. It may be that all our financial worries will be over by 2:50. It's been fun. 

Die Another Day

As I travelled to work yesterday, listening to the breathless hyperbole of Andrew Marr on the firing up of the CERN death-ray, er Large Hadron Collider, I realised that the world was going to end as I was going to work and I was going to miss all the fun but then I reminded myself that I could always watch it again when I got home on the BBC iPlayer. Ain't technology brilliant!

World Ends Wednesday. Put It In Your Diary

Isn't science brilliant! The finest brains of the human race never tire of smashing things up. Pulling them apart to see what happens. 

Pull the wings off flies in the classroom and you're sent to bed without your tea, do it in a laboratory and your liable to be lined up for a Nobel Prize or two. No wonder we're confused.

Tomorrow they fire up the Large Hadron Collider with the aim of discovering fundamental particles foremost of which is the Higgs boson. Some doom merchants are convinced that this will destroy the world as we know it and some cynics may say this would be no bad thing - bring it on.
See you tomorrow - maybe.