I am a poor engineer

Oh hello. Like poor medic, I'm one of the many tens of thousands (possibly millions) of lowly students currently slogging away at one of UK's many fine educational institutions. Greetings.

As an inaugural blogjack on my part, I shall now announce to everyone that the possibility of all of you dying within the next month (days?) has increased exponentially with the final quadripolar magnet of CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been put into place.

Speculations abound about what happens when the particle accelerator gets fired up. Will antimatter be created? Will a blackhole come into being and the world as we know it gets sucked into oblivion? What about us mere mortals? Will we be spat out into the tenth dimension? Good questions really, this lot...

Luckily, or unluckily, them buffoons physicists responsible for this conundrum are now divided into two camps; one wants to go ahead with the most expensive physics experiment in history, the other don't really want to die.

So yeah. Go ahead and make love to loved ones and make peace with hated ones.

On a less depressing note, lets look over the notion of the LHD being the harbringer of death and pay a little more attention to the wonderful fact that it's a tunnel thats freaking 27km in diameter underneath Switzerland! Oh oh and the cryogenics infrastructure is awesome too! Constant -271 degrees C! I'm like... wtf!

Geeky isn't it?