All great stuff and I have high hopes for all kinds of new theories and understanding coming from the Hadron accelerator.
Me too. I really like the "hard" physical sciences. I was telling the kids about the scale of arrangement, using as an example the nucleus of an atom being the size of a marble, how far away are the electrons? In textbook drawings, the electrons are in a close orbit, maybe 20 "marbles" distant. But the true scale is that if the nucleus is the size of a marble, the electrons are two MILES away! What we perceive as "solid" materials are mostly nothingness.
Same sort of scale is associated with the solar system, and with the space between galaxies. The distances are beyond comprehension.