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Tomorrow the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) goes into operation at CERN and many people are freaking out that the world is going to end, but it won’t! What the LHC plans to do is collide proton streams and create particles that mimmick those that existed just after the Big Bang. There is the possibility that small blackholes will be created, but they would be smaller than a proton in size and quickly disperse out of existense. These types of collisions happen all of the time in the atmosphere, they are just putting them all in one place so they can collect data on the collision. One of the goals of the LHC is to finally find the God particle or Higgs Boson. However, no one should be concerned that the largest single thing ever made is going to destroy the world and all of us with it. The smartest engineers and physicists have been working on this project for decades now. If anything we should be happy with what things we can learn about the universe that we did not know the day before. Besides, the LHC does not go into full operation until October 21st, so we’ll have to wait for the world to end until then!

Link: Large Hadron Collider