Dear The Inter­nets, Please be advised that, although the Large Hadron Col­lider will be pow­ered up on Wednes­day, no high-​​​​energy col­li­sions are sched­uled until Novem­ber. It really upsets me to see peo­ple, includ­ing the news media report­ing tomorrow’s ini­tial power-​​​​up as “the most com­plex sci­en­tific exper­i­ment ever under­taken” (from the first link) when in fact it is not. The claims that the LHC will destroy the world are pure lunacy. But please, all you cra­zies out there, if you’re going to get all het up about the end of the world, it is very impor­tant that you get your dates straight. [ . . . ]

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