The Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to fire up Sept 10 at 9 am Geneva time. That works out to about 11pm Sept 9 here in pacific time.
Clearly we need to have mindblowing sex this evening before 11pm just in case the world is destroyed. Not that it will be. The other half actually worked on a synchrotron and is a math geek. He assures me that the world will not end and has even explained some of the math behind it.
But, hey, if the world does end I want to be savoring the afterglow when it happens.
EDIT: Apparently, they’re not colliding tonight, they’re just pumping the first round of protons into the accelerator. Everything is going to be going in the same direction. No Boom. At least at the LHC. He tells me that if I want an excuse, he will come up with a multitude of ways that protons will be colliding this evening inside the LHC ring.