Most powerful atom smasher fires; world doesn't end.

You have to read an article when this is the tag line! This is the most fascinating thing I have read in a LONG time... You HAVE to click HERE !

Here is a sneak peak..

"The startup — eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here — comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collisions of protons could eventually imperil the earth.

The skeptics theorize that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars."

And...

"The LHC, as the collider is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the big bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe."

And...

"The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe."

Below is the YouTube video they talked about in the article. It's great! The girl who made it must be one smart cookie!



{article via chron.com}