I love to follow Sean Carroll at Cosmicvariance and a few other particle physics/cosmology blogs. Little surprise that I was amused to find the above documentation of some pyramidal after work pursuit by ATLAS-team staff at CERN back in 2003. Cool mono btw, innit? That chair may be the standard monobloc at CERN, considering it´s also in the only flickr image tagged with terms remotely referring to both.

And what? There´s some deeper context: CERN is near Geneva, where I dug up the forgotten monobloc inventor three years ago – and this very model is one of his designs. The whole story however will have to wait for the book. Until then, we be cool to admire the most amazing thing humankind has ever produced and wait what the LHC and all these great guys will be able to clear up.

Pic found at Federico´s site who wouldn´t tell his last name on this geeky LINUX squat of directories made into web pages; Digital image restoration/enhancement by René Eisfeld.

P.S. As I wrote this, I saw Sean had a new post relating to David Foster Wallace up. I gambled in pyramids the last two years, as some of you may know. When Dave killed himself last year, I first time found that world-breaking proposal we made actually making sense. But that is obviously a whole different story..

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