The Large Hadron Collider is up and running. As far as I know, the destruction of the Universe, or even our part of it, has not occurred. Whew!
Hadrons, of course, are "fat" particles, not to be confused with baryons, which are "heavy" particles, although some confusion is understandable as baryons are hadrons. But then, so are mesons which are not heavy, although, generally speaking, neither are baryons, you know, compared to say, water buffaloes. Everyone agrees, though, that both mesons and baryons are definitely fat.
But amidst all the speculation about whether or not the Higgs Boson will be detected and what is symmetry breaking, anyway, I think something really important has been overlooked. Or, at least, I haven't heard any public discussion:
Is the collider large, or will it collide large hadrons?
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