Well, the Hawaii botanist brouhaha isn’t particularly great, but it did raise the public’s awareness of the LHC, even on radio quiz shows where their non-expert opinion of the nature of the universe just after the Big Bang was “there were no good restaurants”. Probably have to agree with that, although I just got done reading “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” by Douglas Adams to my kids, so if I couple that with Time Reversal invariance, maybe I can come up with a theory of good restaurants at the beginning of the universe too? All facetiousness aside, I guess (almost) all publicity is good, but we’ll probably do better when Angels and Demons hits the big screen.
What about the Big Bang Burger Bar?
Nuclear physics experts, eh? That aside, my favorite quiz show host got things pretty much right…
I completely forgot about the Big Bang Burger bar! That’s great news, because there really isn’t a place to get a decent hamburger in Geneva, so if we reproduce the conditions of the Big Bang, their will be one more place to eat. And it shows that the radio show non-expert was in fact wrong! Although it is good to check ones sources…