An interesting tour of the facility, with some wonderful observations. It’s one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time, even though it looks li

An interesting tour of the facility, with some wonderful observations. It’s one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time, even though it looks like a monumental folly. Or else, it's a monumental folly, even though it looks like one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time. On "dark energy" and "dark matter" - those names are really just black-box placeholders (like "God") And taking the journalist’s ability to fake fluency in all kinds of subjects to a Stephen Hawking lecture, only to realise that all week everyone else had been radically dumbing down their explanations so that I...might achieve some tiny glimmer of understanding.