In honor of the successful LHC First Beam (webcast available at http://webcast.cern.ch/), and looking forward to the First Collision coming in about a month, here is a quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will
instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more
bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already
happened.
