Priorities of age

11:50am Tuesday 10th July 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

I AM sure finding the Higgs particle is an exciting event, but at my age I’m far more concerned about how life will end – not how it began.

Daphne Stead, Low Hutton Road, Huttons Ambo, York.

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Firedrake says...
1:18pm Tue 10 Jul 12

But "In my end is my beginning ..." So perhaps it is still relevant after all!

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lis0r says...
2:03pm Tue 10 Jul 12

Likely in fear, confusion, and a pool of your own bodily fluids. Probably better to find something to distract yourself with.

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mickrick says...
5:29pm Tue 10 Jul 12

Ah yes the god particle.
We have tempests, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, wars and the slippery James Alexander as our council leader.

The good lords jokes are very often in poor taste.

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NoMorePlease says...
7:43pm Tue 10 Jul 12

Spooge wrote:
I don't want to take a big, bloody turd in my nappy when I expire. That's why I'm going to distract my brains all over the ceiling when I get to retirement age. I can't take the risk of ending up in an old folk's home. Reeking of wee, with my food all over my shirt, and surrounded by people muttering nonsensical gibberish. Nuts to that.
When you get to retirement age, you may be in the best of health. Believe me on this, if you are OK then life goes on

That said I liked the old joke: "live everyday as if it were your last -lying in bed in your own ...."

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Silver says...
10:31am Wed 11 Jul 12

Surely CERN didn't go through all the trouble to find the Higgs Boson simply to clarify Daphne's viewpoint of the universe? Ego centric much?

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ShunGokuSatsu says...
2:13pm Wed 11 Jul 12

The Higgs boson has basically nothing to do with the origins of life; its disovery validates the Standard Model theory on how matter attains mass. Hi-larious commentary on the importance of the so-called "god particle" (actually named due to an editorial decision rather than a description of its properties) has been all over the internet lately, and has nigh-universally come from people who really should've spent five minutes on Wikipedia before writing anything down.

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