Amid outcry’s that the massive discharge of energy from a new particle generator that lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland could create a tiny black hole with the potential to consume the entire earth, that generator, 27 kilometers in circumference went online on 10 September 2008. Nine days later on 19 September 2008, operation of the new particle accelerator was halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. Coincidentally, this was about same time that the global financial markets started to melt down and governments began throwing good money after bad at bankers and financial institutions everywhere even as people were reporting a giant sucking sound coming from Switzerland. [Okay, I’m making up the part about the sucking sound coming from Switzerland, although, as the banking Capital of the world, who can blame me?]
Jan 01