Cool, Peter - thanks!

Any idea when the event took place?

That's really nice to hear, Mat - thank you!

That's covered in the article... Read it.

P.S. But does it have to be in India?

Well - I want one!

$5000+ for my daughter's braces - all, apparently, for naught!

Wow - what a nice piece!

Trivia question...

Who said, "I've got a hole in me pocket." ?

hehe - I prepared a post on this story this afternoon, too, and then decided to spike it because I wasn't sure that our audience would appreciate the photograph - and it wasn't much of a story without it.

I'm glad that YOU thought it was neat, too, Alex!

Kate:

I posted the video and I certainly don't think that the LHC is going to create the black hole depicted in the video and cause the entire earth to be consumed in less than 38 seconds.

This is a topic that has been covered here in the past with a bit of humor. It is in that vein that this post appears today.

Ask Sir Edmund Hillary.

Hi Mattie:

Paranoid hysteria? We're just having a bit of fun!

They haven't started using it yet. They've been "warming it up" (super-cooling it down?). I don't think the real particle collisions are scheduled to start until October.

At least we'll be able to see the sugar maples turn their autumn colors one last time...

Suction?

Doug:

That was a typo on my part. I'm fixing it now.

Thanks!

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword:

It's also been reported that "Snooks" speaks with an English accent, which is odd because neither parent is English and while different variations on New England upper-class accents may sound odd to a non-New Englander, I don't think I've ever heard of a Boston Brahman or other Yankee's speech being confused with that of an Englishperson.