‘The world’s largest atom smasher’ wasn’t the only unintentional innuendo in this BBC report.
If you’re a fan of protons being torpedoed into one another at great speeds in very expensive, purpose-built underground machines then you don’t need to be told that this is a significant week.
That is, of course, a reference to the Hadron Collider, which is ready for action following a recent upgrade.
Unlike when it was first ‘turned on’, there are no fears that the Collider will open up a huge black hole and suck us all into oblivion this time around; just great excitement.
Such high levels of excitement, in fact, that it clearly had an impact within the BBC newsroom, where a small typo transformed one of science’s greatest triumphs into something very, very different…
