Ooh! The hadron collider has karked it! Yippeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[FlightAttendent]

I just heard on newsround, it is fucked. Great, we might not die yet then!

Ahhh so it was bad science after all.

Dang

I am kinda disappointed, as I have been on a mega shop and spent the children's inheritance

[joke]

Maybe they could turn it into a theme park ride now.

No surprise to me at all

Fabio done premonition it.
Clever cat.

LOL at hearing it on Newsround (mind you, I just read it on Mumsnet...)

Is this true?

Hope the cleaner doesn't switch it on by mistake while plugging in the hoover - the black hole might escape if it's broken.

But it's ok, cos it's only a little black hole.

Ah their plan to take over the world is foiled again!

I dunno about accuracy of reporting tbh. but it was great - I overheard the presenter saying, at the end of the announcement, 'So, that's not very good, is it!'

Ha ha!!!! Brilliant.

You lot need this book: quantum theory cannot hurt you [grinj]

oo I like the look of that book.

As we're all chatting about science quite the thing, can I ask a question? Is play dough a solid?

ds1 got that book for his birthday and loves it. I can't understand beyond the first couple of pages

I couldn't understand the blurb, roisin, but it sounded so interesting I thought if I concentrated Very Hard it would sink in.

You're only asking me that because of the Tartare Sauche Incident, pointy

It's probably a solid. I mean, it's not a liquid or a gas, is it? How many other categories are there? Solid, liquid, gas, squishy stuff.

har! just found this

no, I know nothing of the tartare sauce incident.

A child asked me and I said confidently solid, then remembered that glass is a liquid. And thought, actually that child asked a very good question.

Glass is a liquid? Really?

ooh yes, glass is a liquid - s'why antique window panes are slightly thicker at the bottom than the top

this page agrees with you both and then it changes its mind

Playdoh is a malleable solid.

Glass is a brittle solid (at room temperature).

ah, ok, not so much a smug know-it-all of useless information then

Cote has special words. She wins.

Carp - your understanding was much further advanced than mine.

carp? Jesus, what is with my spelling today. This does not bode well for the book I'm copy-editing.

I like the name Carp.

Guppy is good as well.

How many other fish can we think of? I expect they have all been taken ages ago though during some Cod related fun