We Could Have Ruled the Milky Way
Well, we missed our chance to reign supreme in the galaxy.
By now the U. S. would have a superconducting supercollider smashing protons into anti-protons and exploring the fundamental levers of power in the universe.
Thanks to grumps like Newt Gingrich, the French are going to get there first. The French and the Swiss and other European nations are nearing completion of the CERN supercollider under the French-Swiss border.
The U.S. supercollider was being constructed in Texas, and a great deal of money had already been spent. But in 1993, Congress pulled the plug, leaving miles of concrete tunnels – useless except for illegal immigrants streaming northward at 186,000 miles per second to blow fuses that Americans just won’t blow.
So the scientific frontier shifts to Europe. At stake is the search for the Higgs boson, the so-called “god particle” believed to confer the property of mass on other particles such as electrons and protons.
Could this provide an answer to the age-old question, “Can God create a rock too heavy for God to lift?”
Probably not. They’re French. They’re Swiss. They’ve built an overheated 17-mile electronic raceway 300 feet beneath a trail of melting chocolate.
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And the French only work a 33 hour week!!!!
Comment by Carol Galante — May 20, 2007 @ 8:36 pm
And take long lunches!
Comment by Whiney left coaster — June 2, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
But at least the Swiss are great lovers.
Comment by Al — June 2, 2007 @ 7:12 pm