As Mike has written over on his blog, the innuendo quotient of of a machine called the Large Hadron Collider (just repeat it a few times slowly if you're stuck) can only be discounted by the humorless or non Anglophones among you.
CERN physicists got to play with their new toy earlier today. However, as I write this, the world hasn't ended. For those of you breathing a sigh of relief, it's worth noting that so far they've just been trying to get a single particle beam to spin round the accelerator track. The potentially black hole-spawning, grab-your-crowbars, apocalypse-generating collisions won't begin until there are two beams spinning in opposite directions, which will be a while yet.
I may even have time to grow another goatee...
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