Blog On The Motorway

It is, as I am sure you will be aware, Big Bang day today, as Cern’s super smashing Large Hadron Collider experiment gets underway.  And no, the world hasn’t ended, as you can plainly see as you look out the window.  If anything, the world is actively continuing along its merry way. Go on, look!

Now I am absolutely an idiot when it comes to Physics.  At school my old Physics teacher, Mr Butt (a rather rotund fella with a penchent for fits of rage and collecting train tickets) would despair at my inability to grasp even the most simple of physics notions.  Science has held little or no hold over my interests as an adult, but even I can see that this is a monumental day in terms of the human race exploring into the nature of our very being, and something that will one day be celebrated in the same way as the works of Einstein, Darwin et al.

It seems to me that the increase in religious fervour worldwide has done a great deal of harm to the cause of science, with debate now actively raging even in this country as to whether the teaching of evolution diminishes a child’s right to practice their own religion (as evidenced in Channel 4′s excellent ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin). Surely children have a right to be taught scientifically proven fact? But I digress.
It has been a while since science has come up with anything that truly captures the imagination of the people, and it has seemed in recent years as though we are all on a cultural and intellectual backslide towards a time when common sense has been replaced by dogma and superstition.  Here’s hoping that today marks the start of a reversal of this trend.  The Mighty Radiohead are evidently also on my side on all of this, as this article shows.

To somewhat undercut this point, however, as I walked to work today I found myself musing on whether this experiment would destroy the world (a thought that for some reason never really fills me with dread, as it would at least be interesting to watch) I found myself thinking back to an episode of Angel where an over-keen physicist nearly destroys the world by freezing it in a time bubble, and I wondered if maybe Angel himself was stalking the corridors at Cern, making sure that nothing was askew or askance.

I have the rest of the week off after today, as Ellen is off away for a few days and so I have been placed on RosieWatch. Hmm, two days at work, or two days playing with Rosie.  Not in any way a hard decision.

If you haven’t seen Hellboy 2 yet, go see.  Simply a marvellous, sumptuous treat, wrapped in a disarming and lovely character study of love and alienation. Awesome.

Lastly, it seems most of the traffic coming my way is off the back of a google image search for Chris O Donnell dressed as Robin.  Hello and welcome, and please feel free to tell me exactly why you are looking with such eagerness for such a picture.  Really, I would love to know!