I refer of course to a recent Guardian Article which highlights the amazing career of Peter Higgs, who postulated the existance of a particle which if proven to exist would back up his theory about why matter as we know it has mass…

It seems CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is near completion, this will be the largest particle accelerator in the world, and will basically accelerate particles to near the speed of light and collide them with each other….see? Does what it says on the tin! Who said physics was complicated eh…?

Anyhooo - this seems to be the best equipped location to prove or disprove Higg’s hypothesis regarding mass, ironic given CERN’s origional misgivings regarding his work.

This is all rather exciting?! Given that I have grown up in a world changing at exponential rates from microchips, and microwaves to nano-technology and playstation three’s! It’s seems we are reaching the edges of some boundaries that only a few years ago seemed insurmountable. In fact if you check out the pictures of the new CERN accelerator in Switzerland you’d be forgiven for thinking you were looking at the set of the next Star Trek movie!

I await the results of these breathtaking experiments going on with hope and excitement for the future. For those of you wondering where this tangent came from in my blog….I spent a couple of years studying Engineering Physics at university - and whilst I didn’t stay until the end through disolusionment with the course and it’s structure at the time, I remain an interested bystander in the subject.

I realise I ought to be asleep by now, but I’ve been running a marathon of a different sort; phoning mortgage people, and loan people; making arrangments for a solicitor etc…. Time for a Yeeee-Haaar!! I’ve accepted an offer on my house, the ball is now rolling in approximatley 5 to 8 weeks I’ll be released of all UK financial ties (although - I will keep a bank account ticking over, plus a small credit card in order to keep my credit rating whilst I am not in country) - that way if I ever return. I don’t have to rebuild my status from scratch….sneaky huh!

Gonna catch some zzzzzz’s now :sleepy: at least it’s Friday eh?