WITH the politics increasingly siphoned out of conference the event has become one long Groundhog Day. So unreal and soporific had the mood become over the weekend that one delegate ventured the possibility that the CERN big bang experiment had actually destroyed the planet after all, but no one had told conference. As it was, the two events could not co-exist in the same galaxy and the large hadron collider malfunctioned and had to be unplugged as Gordon Brown reached his peroration.
WITH the politics increasingly siphoned out of conference the event has become one long Groundhog Day. So unreal and soporific had the mood become over the weekend that one delegate ventured the possibility that the CERN big bang experiment had actually destroyed the planet after all, but no one had told conference. As it was, [...]
by Tribune Web Editor
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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