The restraint of science correspondents is to be admired
I wouldn’t have been able to sum it up so succinctly. All over the world last Thursday when the announcement about the gravitational wave was made, science correspondents must have been figuring out, what on earth (and all over the universe) were they going to say to sum up probably the some of the hardest sums in the universe. There aren’t many science stories that make the headlines. Landing a rover on Mars is always a handy one. Everyone knows where Mars is. There was the Canadian fella in space who used to play the guitar and give Ireland a mention. Again that is something that is easily comprehensible: a man up FIERCE high above the world, floating in his tin can.
Every now and then there is news from the Hadron Collider — a giant tube, tens of kilometres long, built into a mountain in order to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang.
