I'm having fun watching the news about the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Ever since they shut down the Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas, I have felt a sort of a black hole of loss inside. Now that brilliant physicists are about to recreate the beginning of the world in a very small and somewhat controlled fashion, I feel whole again.
The fears of the public that a real black hole might be created, resulting in the original Creation being sucked into it and disappearing for evermore, seem a bit silly. If this scenario did play out, it seems like a very quick and painless ticket to oblivion, or heaven; wherever you think you are going. It's all good.
This reminds me of the time my little boy lost a tooth, and thinking about the tooth fairy coming to see him that night, he decided to build an elaborate edifice out of Legos which he called a "trap" to catch the tooth fairy. It was as tall as the boy and très Rube Goldberg. He placed the contraption next to his bed and climbed under the sheets to wait for the tooth fairy. However, only minutes later, he got up out of bed and destroyed the trap, pulling it apart into all its individual components.
Why? He was afraid it would really work and the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to leave him any money!
Come the dawn, he had a quarter under his pillow, and come the dawn today, the world hadn't been sucked up into a black hole of human manufacture.
Sic transit gloria mundi. Or something like that.
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