Apologies to our vast international readership who do not have the privilege of paying the BBC licence fee, but tonight there will be a programme on BBC2 at 9pm, called, ahem, Horizon: The Six-Billion Dollar Experiment.
Yes, it is about the LHC.
Since there is absolutely nothing else on the telly tonight, I am sure the whole nation will be captivated by this programme.
Among the questions to be answered tonight:
- Will the BBC get the physics right?
- Might the LHC create a black hole which will gobble up the planet (a question that I was asked at passport control last month!)
- Will anyone tell them that "the God Particle" is a really really useless name for the Higgs? (with all due respect)
- Will any of our colleagues at Imperial HEP appear?
- How will Peter Crouch do against John Terry and Michael Essien?
