Black holes

A few weeks ago the news was all about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the highest energy particle collider ever built, and whether the world would end or not in a mad-scientist's attempt to recreate the Big Bang and have us all sucked into a black hole. Or, as the scientists would say, we would learn some new physics.

The mad-bankers have since become jealous and are currently doing their best to end the world themselves. Blessed are the poor financial experts, they know not what they do.

The LHC is broken and never even got to the stage of colliding protons, but it will do next year. Hopefully. That's enough time to schedule the rest of us to put the sub-prime mortgage lenders in the beam, handcuffed and blindfolded, and let them see what the end of the world looks like. As an experimentalist, I would like to see what happens.