Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.
I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.
The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.