Just a brief note.

The CERN Hadron Particle Collider has apparently been switched on as of Wednesday. And we’re still here, which is… good. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, this machine is built 100m underground, is multiple kilometres long, and is going to shoot opposite particles at each other at near the speed of light. The machine also has a very miniscule chance of causing the utter annihilation of life, the universe and everything as we know it.

When the particles collide, all sorts of quantum fireworks are supposed to take place, such as mini black holes on Earth being created temporarily — the idea is to recreate on a small scale the early state of the universe, where squillions of two opposing particles smashed into each other unto oblivion, although JUST enough of one type survived- and that is the universe as we know it. Were there an equal amount of each, there’d have been no universe, so scientists say.
It is also supposed to test for something known as the Higgs boson – or the “G-d particle” – that which scientists blame for giving form and shape and order to the universe.

And so, once again I’m happy we are all still here so far.

I look forward optimistically to writing more another time.

Shabbath Shalom.