The LHC

Well the Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running. I’m used to big science facilities, but man, it’s huge. Of course some people got the idea that it was dangerous. My favourite is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0, by a guy that reckons that the LHC is solely designed by the masons (scientists are exactly the same as masons) to disrupt the Van Allen belt and allow Satan to come back. I…

September 15, 2008
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The End of the World

September 8, 2008

Isn’t it funny how, as soon as you don’t have to do something, it becomes appealing again. Like blogging. El Hierro used to be the end of the world, and so the zero meridian went through the west of the island, before it moved to Greenwich. On Thursday we went to see it. It really does feel like the end of the world. The whole island’s rather dry, and this…

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