So this week is spring break for me, which means that I will inevitably waste my extra days off without realizing that they had even come and gone. Then I’ll be back in school next Monday and will have done none of the homework I’d promised myself I’d do over the break. Frankly, I’m already off to a great start!

I’ve been wasting some time lately reading about the Large Hadron Collider being built in Switzerland that’s supposed to be turned on in May. I know people probably always have an inflated idea of the importance of the time in which they live, but man. What a time to be alive. I wont pretend to understand everything going on with the thing, but from what I gather experiments carried out with the particle accelerator may close big gaps in our understanding of physics, like how some types of particles acquire mass. Even more interesting is the (very small) possibility that it may end up producing Strangelets and Micro Black Holes, in which case no one is really sure what would happen. Will the earth be devoured by Micro Black Holes of our own creation in May? Probably not, but it’s hard to deny that the possibility is engrossing. Am I in favor of turning on a machine that could possibly induce such an outcome? Hell yes I am! We’ve all got to go sometime, and I can’t think of a more epic way to die than via a man made black hole. Well, maybe if cloned dinosaurs were somehow also involved.