Motus Mentis

As you have probably heard, the folks at CERN have fired up the Large Hadron Collider, and it seems to be working: at least, the lights came on, the clock started blinking “12:00”, and so forth. By some miracle, we are all still here, and have not been gobbled up by a strangelet, or yanked into some cosmic wormhole. Actually, of course, we wouldn’t have been, anyway, just yet, because it will be quite a while before anything particularly energetic is happening over there, and quite a while indeed before any actual particle-colliding takes place. So to all the concerned citizens I’ve been hearing on the radio lately, gibbering in fathomless ignorance about how these crazy physicists are going to “punch black holes into the Earth” — as if the Collider were some sort of colossal seed dibber — you still have plenty of time to get your affairs in order, if you like.