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Well, it is now pretty much official. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was switched on about three hours ago (8:30 AM UK time) and contrary to some initial reports (mainly on Fox News), the world did NOT end.

Let me repeat that..The world HAS NOT actually ended. However, we are getting some indications that feelings of intellectual pointlessness, dramatic ennui and general emotive disassociation have slightly increased in parts of rural Switzerland. Hopefully we will get some film of that soon.

Of course, the enormous research collider which was feared (or hoped) by some to create a giant black hole at the center of our planet causing all existence as we know it to wink out hasn’t actually created any collisions yet (that will take place in a month), but hadron particles are now in motion around the 17 mile device…so that’s a good sign then isn’t it.

Of course, according to quantum physics, time distorts as you come into a black hole where your perception may be of everything being perfectly normal even though an outside observer (like Fox News, for instance) may be watching you torn atom by atom and compacted down into nothingness in real time. So the world MAY actually have ended a couple hours ago, and we just don’t know it yet.

I love science.

BTW – The LHC, being 17 miles long and worth about 5 billion pounds, is not technically a mobile gadget, but I thought you’d like to know anyway.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).