...and I feel fine

Well, we same to have made it safely through the first 3 hours since the CERN Large Hadron Collider was switched on. Which, I suppose, is something of a relief. (There may be, for some, a certain prurient satisfaction in watching other people's disasters - hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. but the potential mass-production of black holes a mere 1299km away is too close to home for this physicist. (Higher, 1970))

Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.

CERN (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire)
http://public.web.cern.ch/

CERN TV (YouTube Channel)
http://www.youtube.com/user/CERNTV

What was supposed to happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM

Guardian Science Interactive Big Bang Machine
http://bit.ly/4tmUiq

...and just remember who Tim Berners-Lee (& friends) were working for when they invented this WWW thing...