It is so ridiculously easy for me to show how little I know about certain topics...just let me get rambling on FTR about, oh, finance, for example, or the law, and CPA's and lawyers across the state have great party stories to tell. "Can you believe what..."
With that disclaimer out of the way, a quick note about something that's happening Wednesday that as far as I can tell, has gotten diddly attention in the U.S. media. Maybe that's because it happening outside the USA?
It's called "Large Hadron Collider"...a seventeen mile scientific instrument (yes 17
miles!)underground on the French/Swiss border. According to the London Independent, " One of its experimental chambers is bigger than the nave of Westminster Abbey." Anyway, scientists are going to use it for the first time on Wednesday, and the lunatic fringe wants us to worry that a great black hole will swallow the planet when they flip the switch. (Again, what do I know? But my mortgage payment is due right after Wednesday so I may just wait and see.) You can find lots of stories about it in the overseas media, and apparently a great photo series in the Boston Globe, but my computer kept locking up when I tried to load the page. I couldn't even copy the link. You try it!
Anyway, let's hope the scientists know what they're doing, otherwise the day
before 9/11 will suddenly be the most significant date in the month.
[NOTE: There's no "For The Record" scheduled for this coming Friday, so please don't think we've been swallowed by a black hole or something. FTR returns on September 19th at 9:30, and then moves to a more permanent spot at 9:00pm on the 26th. Don't ask.]
It is so ridiculously easy for me to show how little I know about certain topics...just let me get rambling on FTR about, oh, finance, for example, or the law, and CPA's and lawyers across the state have great party stories to tell. "Can you believe what..."
With that disclaimer out of the way, a quick note about something that's happening Wednesday that as far as I can tell, has gotten diddly attention in the U.S. media. Maybe that's because it happening outside the USA?
It's called "Large Hadron Collider"...a seventeen mile scientific instrument (yes 17 miles!)underground on the French/Swiss border. According to the London Independent, " One of its experimental chambers is bigger than the nave of Westminster Abbey." Anyway, scientists are going to use it for the first time on Wednesday, and the lunatic fringe wants us to worry that a great black hole will swallow the planet when they flip the switch. (Again, what do I know? But my mortgage payment is due right after Wednesday so I may just wait and see.) You can find lots of stories about it in the overseas media, and apparently a great photo series in the Boston Globe, but my computer kept locking up when I tried to load the page. I couldn't even copy the link. You try it!
Anyway, let's hope the scientists know what they're doing, otherwise the day before 9/11 will suddenly be the most significant date in the month.
[NOTE: There's no "For The Record" scheduled for this coming Friday, so please don't think we've been swallowed by a black hole or something. FTR returns on September 19th at 9:30, and then moves to a more permanent spot at 9:00pm on the 26th. Don't ask.]
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