Sep 09
I know they’re completely different acronyms, but they kind of look the same, right?
Anyway, I’m spending this morning being pretty scared, to be perfectly honest. Because as excited as I am about the new Large Hadron Collider in Europe, which is being fired up for the first time rather soon, it also scares the bejeezes (sp?) out of me. Yes, I’m actually having fears about the end of the world.
I guess all we can do is hope that everything turns out for the best, and we learn a lot of cool information about the universe, and nobody dies. Right?
Right?
Oh my gosh.
And okay, so we still have another month and a half or so before they do anything possibly dangerous with it, but… Still…
Heh, if it makes you feel any better I think I subconciously feel the same…
About two weeks ago I woke up and went downstairs and my sister goes “Did you hear about the large hadron collider?” and my instinct was “OMG it blew up the Northern Hemisphere and .. and.. the earth is about to collapse in on itself” (or something to that effect which in retrospect is ridiculous, if something does go wrong we probably won’t ever know..). Instead my sister was just asking if I knew of its existence. But yes.. its exciting and a bit scary.
OR, admittedly there was a part of me that wondered if it had in some way been sabotaged…