Wired’s cover story this week covers the most important things we don’t yet know. It’s neat, mind-bending stuff in dumbed-down easily digestible 2-3 paragraph passages.

Regarding the Large Hadron Collider (stop giggling), I wonder, how valuable is the boson to our understanding of fundamental physics? I mean, is what we might gain from it worth a one in 100,000 shot of creating a humanity-swallowing black hole? A one in 100 shot? A one in a million shot?

I wonder there are any other corners of the universe now occupied by black holes where life once plugged along pluckily — until the life forms started learning how to accelerate particles.

Oh well. At least it won’t hurt!

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