I need to make sure I have lots of sex...

Stephen Hawking has $100 riding on this.

I just ate a poptart. Raspberry with pink icing and pink sprinkles.

Is he still in Alaska?

Me too. Just a lil bit.

I need to make sure I have ANY sex.

CP read an article that described the force involved in one of the collisions they're going to produce as about the equivalent of two mosquitoes colliding head on. What a bizarre, yet oddly relatable analogy.

I thought I read somewhere that it was going to take months to reach full power. But that article you linked says the first protons are being injected on Wednesday, so hmm...

I highly doubt it'll be the end of the world, and if it is, I won't be around to care, so I'm going to go on presuming that this will go the way of all the other "end-of-the-world" predictions. But we may get some pretty cool science news soon :)

Still, that doesn't mean I mightn't be up for a mid-week party...

They powered it up and did small scale test runs (no collisions) a month ago. Tomorrow they're going to inject proton beams and have them do full circuits of the tunnel for the first time, still no collisions. The actual first collisions won't be until late October.

So good news, another excuse to party on October!

Ah good, October is much better for me than this week. I'm kinda trying to take September "off", socially. How very considerate of the folks at CERN to accommodate my schedule, I simply don't have time for the end of the world right now.

I haven't read that one (but may look it up) but here is another SF novel with much the same starting premise: FlashForward by Robert Sawyer.