Last night, in the wee hours of the morning (when else?) there was a 1995 X-Files episode on Scifi featuring a younger and adorably disheveled Tony Shalhoub as a physicist researching dark matter with a particle collider. I can't imagine that this was a coincidence, as CERN's LHC went online yesterday. Since reading this book, I am kind of excited to see what is and isn't found at the LHC.
In the episode, Shalhoub's character accidentally got locked in the room with the colliding particles, and he survived, but his shadow was burned onto the wall where he stood (think There Will Come Soft Rains). From then on, Tony Shalhoub's shadow, whether cast on a wall or the floor, instantly incinerated anyone who "contacted" it. Meaning, if his shadow's on the floor and your foot gets in the way, you're a goner.
X Files =/= the Twilight Zone, but it was cool.
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