The world didn’t explode, we’re not all dead (or converted into strangelets), and we can’t blame the french. Well, two out of three aint bad.
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Well. It’ll actually be about a week before the particles reach the speed they want before they collide them.
Yea, I too, was under the impression that it would be in one flick of the switch.
So we all need to keep out heads in the dirt till then.
Ah well so we have a reprieve then 
Yes I suppose I can understand it now, after all it must take time to reach a few mph under the speed of light…
You’d think though, that like say engines with boosting fuel, there’d be something for sub-atomic particles to push them over that limit? Yay, past the speed of light folks!
Ah well so we have a reprieve then :) Yes I suppose I can understand it now, after all it ...
Well. It'll actually be about a week before the particles reach the speed they want before they collide them. Yea, I ...