“Supercollider? I hardly know her!” Futurama is well known for its geek in-jokes, and I’m sure that one caused spods and science-niks the world over to hyuck-it-up. How many rooms in CERN do you reckon have that line festooned in poster form on their walls? To be honest, the fiction behind the Large Hadron Collider, to-date, has always been a good deal more entertaining than the reality. We’ve had: The notion of the ‘God’ particle. For idiots. The use of antimatter to fund another yacht of cocaine for Dan Brown. The idea that Switzerland might get sucked into the ground. [...]
