[Ravensfort] Happy End of the World...

[Hoffpauir, David]

The Lord of the Manor would have me announce:


At approximately 3:00 am September 10, in the Year of our Lord, 2008, being Anno Societatus XLIII the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) goes online.  If all goes well, we shall all be instantly vaporized in an ever expanding cloud of matter, light, and energy, just as the creator's of "our" Universe were vaporized 13.73 billion years ago, when "their" LHC went online, thus proving the existence of the Higgs-Bison, humpty-backed camels, the God Particle, and the Hogfather, and ending the current controversy over the North Carolina Bigfoot, all in one swoop.

As modern medievalist, we have often feasted and drank our lauds to the End of the World. In fact, one particular End of World Party and an electric fence is etched in the Pain Assisted Learning (PAL) part of my mind, but we'll save that story for bards and campfires...  Yes, we've all partied like it's 1499 only to awake to a pounding of brain flesh and another ratenous day upon this wretched earth, as mere semi-nobles who must (all too soon) saunter home to a dreary week of laundry, skeleton-hoards, and Sonic burgers.  But, take heart, for we've never had science on our side, so maybe this time we'll get it right.

Maybe there is a God Particle.  Maybe we'll find it.  And, maybe, this time, it won't bring on the Spanish Inquisition...

Of, course, if all predictions are wrong and we instead create a black hole, then, I reckon, we all get a group hug soon...

Happy End of the World Day.


Humble scribe to the L of the M,
DSD