The world will not self-destruct next Wednesday
Posted by: Rafa Ribas in IB DP, MYP, Year 8I had promised my Year 8 class to post a link to The Elements Song, by Tom Lehrer; well, here is a link to the flash version, and also to the lyrics.
But I keep having people meeting me down the corridor or in the cafeteria asking me about “this experiment that may blow up the entire planet“. So I try to calm them down, and tell them that the people at CERN are the kind of people who know what they are doing. After all, these are the same people who invented the World Wide Web and it works pretty well, right?
As far as I am concerned, I am looking forward to visiting CERN next November with my Year 13, and I am quite certain it will not have been sucked up by a black hole by then. And I get even more excited by that after seeing this amazing set of images.
So after you have read all the above, clicked all the links and convinced yourselves that you don’t need to cancel your date on Thursday night, I leave you with this wonderful Large Hadron Rap. Enjoy!
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October 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I’d just like to check, Mr Ribas
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
November 11th, 2008 at 9:35 am
QUE PASA MR!!estamos aqui en el ICT room tus antiguos alumnos..que no nos hemos olvidado de ti!nos hemos acordado de ti y hemos decidido escribirte por aqui, pero no sabemos si lo leeras..echamos de menos el espionaje!
bueno rafa esperamos que te vaya todo fenomenal y aver cuando vienes a hacernos una visita!
un saludo de puig, topo y patricia.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:37 am
por cierto, estamos celosos de mischief, tu nuevo gollix.