Coming to all this a bit late (I have been away again!) we're obvioouisly all now living in a parrallel universe having been absorbed by a black hole or.....absolutely nothing BAD happened at all (unless of course the Credit Crunch is a result of sending millions of electrons etc too fast round a rather long circular track). Seriously tho I am delighted by all the science news. I never studied any of the sciences beyond making phosporous whizz round on the surface of water, but being a literary and language person I am thrilled that real life has impacted on fiction - and become available knowledge for us all even if we dont understand it. I first came across the LHC in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons and have been fascinated by the concept ever since. No I dont understand it all, but what does that matter? I went to a very interesting lecture about it just before 10th Sept and have been trying to follow the happenings ever since. When was the last time something truly scientific captured the imagination of the world? Hooray for the scientists - may their experiments be successful and may they result in many useful things in the future.