It’s the world’s biggest machine with a tunnel 27 km (17 miles) long.

It’s buried beneath the earth under the French Swiss border.

It cost $8 billion to construct and it’s the most sophisticated scientific experiment ever designed.

They fired up the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland yesterday.

Inside this tunnel, they’re bashing the hell out of a bunch of protons, creating and analyzing cataclysmic collisions so they can work out what happened after the Big Bang. They are looking for evidence of dark matter and particles called “stranglets.”

Once they have that figured that out, they should drop in George Bush, Rumsey and Cheney to figure out what happened in America in the moments after the last election. Here too they can discover the political dark matter and strangelet particles that inhabit the brains of these men.

I would also like to see them chuck in Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to see if they can predict what will happen in Canada if a Neo-Conservative majority gets in.

If Canadians aren’t smart enough to learn from the NeoCon experience of our neighbours to the south, then perhaps the Large Harper Collider can help them figure it out before it’s too late.