LHC

[liadnan]

Adam Hart-Davis is currently on Radio 4 being taken round the Large Hadron Collider. From his description it appears to be suspiciously akin to the set for the climactic scenes of a James Bond film. Pashazade and I suspect the Welsh one who didn't quite get to say "Energise the Large Hadron Collider", possibly because that would have sounded silly. "Throw open the switches on the sonic oscillator... and step up the reactor power input Three More Points" would have been perfectly appropriate though.

I confess there was a part of me that wanted to hear a few seconds of dead silence after they started, followed by a very quiet "Oh... Shit." But hey, isn't it supposed to be the Big Mistake of '08 that drives us into space?

PS Diamond Geezer on the Mail's take.