...apparently fearing that the end of the world was approaching at the hands of mad scientists, a teenage girl in central India killed herself. Chayya, 16, from Madhya Pradesh, drank pesticide. Her father said she had been asking him and other relatives “about the world coming to an end on September 10”.
The Indian media had been working itself into a frenzy as the switch-on time for the Large Hadron Collider approached. While some sought out one last fine meal, many thousands of others were praying and fasting for salvation. A temple in Orissa noted the arrival of 1,000 extra worshippers on Tuesday.
“I am observing the fast for safety,” said Rukmini Moharana, a housewife. “Only God can save us.”
whereas in Israel
it was hoped that the start of the hadron collider could prove an agent for peace rather than catastrophe. Forty Israeli scientists had worked on developing the CERN facility, often side by side with scientists from enemy states such as Iran and Lebanon. The newspaper Yediot Aharanot reported that, at a celebratory party at the Swiss complex, Palestinian and Israeli flags hung side by side.
“Science knows no borders and no enemies,” said Professor Giora Miken-berg, of Israel’s Weizmann Institute. “It’s a wonderful thing.”
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