Endings

Well, we're safe for now. The Large Hadron Collider sprang a leak and they had to send out for a refrigeration repairman, probably the Maytag man's big chance. It will be two more months before we know if the world is going to end. In Montana we would probably have a few hours warning (maybe) before we got sucked into the black hole. Time enough to tell your family you love them. That's better than global warming in a way--either way the world ends and with it strung out over a generation or two people forget the love part.

In a previous blog I spoke of the collider and a scientist comparing the odds of it imploding to the odds of a pen falling through the table. Now they are saying it IS possible but only a one in fifty million chance. The latest odds for the Powerball Lottery are one in eighty million. Did you buy your lottery ticket today?

A thought occurred to me--good plot for a science fiction novella. They say there is a black hole at the center of almost all galaxies. Are these maybe the monuments to a billion civilizations who got so smart they thought they had to find a Higgs Boson? Maybe there is an evolution of civilizations, too. Only the really smart ones do not have galaxies marking where they used to be.

What an interesting world it is.