It's been a pretty ginormous week for stuff.

Most of the stuff I get — Pluto, the return of Bloom County — but I'll be honest — I don't understand the significance of the Hadron Collider discovering a new particle.

I'm just assuming discovering a pentaquark particle is significant because you don't see a lot of people posting on social media about it.

Most people on social media have their gears stuck on the Confederate Flag, which is OK for people who want to keep their heads stuck in the history of a war none of them ever experienced because CNN wasn't around at the time.

If CNN's coverage of the Civil War was anything like the first Iraq war it would stand the chance to be ginormous.

But, come to think of it, Matthew Brady probably didn't have night-vision cameras to pick up the greenish glow of stuff being blown up, which made the first Iraq war such a ginormous one to watch.

Thank goodness for the folks at the CERN Hadron Collider press office in Geneva, which explained to me why the discovery of the pentaquark particle is important in a way I could never explain myself because I don't speak Swiss.

I'm fairly adept at recognizing Swiss Miss hot chocolate. I can find Little Debbie Swiss Rolls and I know if cheese has holes in it then it's probably Swiss or there's a mouse running around getting into the gouda.

The good folks in the press office explained to me perfectly why something I thought is important is, in fact, quite important.

“The pentaquark is not just any new particle,” said LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson. “It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons, in a pattern that has never been observed before in over fifty years of experimental searches. Studying its properties may allow us to understand better how ordinary matter, the protons and neutrons from which we’re all made, is constituted.”

See. That's pretty ginormous.

Meanwhile, news of the solar system's ice-covered stepchild, Pluto, not the Disney character, but the planet, or what was a planet until some know-it-alls said it wasn't a planet, put what I still call a planet back in the spotlight.

The sad thing is, while people on social media are still fighting the War of Southern or Northern aggression, depending on your particular — not particle — affiliation, the New Horizons spacecraft was showing us a broader picture of our world beyond the Mason-Dixon Line.

Funny thing about Pluto, there's a big shadow or ice-filled crater that kind of sort of almost looks like the Disney Pluto, although I never quite understood what his purpose was in the Disney family.

Maybe if we put our passion into the present rather than the past, we could get Pluto back to planet status.

See. That's pretty ginormous, especially when you think New Horizons has now visited every planet in our solar system.

Of course, there was the almost surprise announcement of the return of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bloom County.

For someone like myself, who has a thirst and hunger for pop culture, I could always rely on Bloom County to help me understand complicated issues like the Falklands War and the dirty politics that ruined Bill the Cat's run for president.

With the return of the comic now official, I suspect its creator Berkeley Breathed will be lampooning Donald Trump again, although Mr. Trump is not and will not be part of my ginormous week.

The return of Bloom County will help its loyal readers, and maybe some new ones, loose the earthly bonds of a bygone war and expand their satirical particles.

See. That's pretty ginormous — Lance Martin