If you are privy to the major experiments going on within the scientific community, or if you’ve listened to any of the main stream media over the last few days, you’re probably aware that today was the day that the Large Hadron Collider was turned on. This is the largest, most powerful, and most energy consuming particle accelerator ever. So powerful, in fact, that conspiracy theorists everywhere and even some scientists were convinced that when it would be turned on, tons of microscopic black holes would be created, expand, and consume the universe as we know it. Well, guess what nut jobs: We’re still here. It was powered up this morning and is so far working better than expected without any issues. It will likely take several months before the scientists operating it can really get it up to its full potential, so I suppose the universe could still end when they do that, but I’m feeling confident that we’ll be just fine.