The Ballyfermot Blogger

The $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider has worked today, without destroying the Universe sadly. The long 20 year wait for some, surmounted all expectations by producing two white dots on a monitor, which didn’t then fly around the room chopping off heads as some naysayers had predicted “There it is,” project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap” when ” two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 a.m.” See artists own impression below left (click to enlarge)

“Well done everybody,” said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider’s control room at the Swiss-French border.

Mr Robert Aymar is probably happy to see the black hole creator not doing its thing just right now, see the predicted effect above left (Click to enlarge). This caused some to tear up their betting slips in abject outrage, most of whom had hoped to collect their winnings after spagettification. Now that just plain sucks, dont it?

“The skeptics theorized that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.” So there, horray for the skeptics I say, who says that thinking about being sucked into a hole isn’t fun or politically correct these days. The recession anybody?

It’s nonsense,” said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday’s start.
What’s this nonsense then? The $1.9 Billion per white dot or that cutbacks will force you to do with just one white dot on your screen and what can you do with half a black hole anyway, eh? Whats that? Pour more money in? Hmmm…
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