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(this was going to be an update to the last post, but oh well.)

The Times - Hadrons and Humanity
The insights into the universe which the Large Hadron Collider will reveal have significance far beyond physics. They are a celebration of human curiosity

Why does matter have mass, allowing it to form stars, planets and people? What makes up the extraordinarily large proportion of the Universe that is known to exist, but cannot be seen? How many dimensions are there? How is nature put together?

The LHC will start to tell us soon. For those of us who have religious faith, it will suggest the tools with which the Creator chose to fashion us. For those of us with none, it will better reveal how, if not why, the void gave way to the cosmos.

There. Is that so hard?

(Okay, you can go back to your pies and cigarettes.)