The doomsday device is online. Today the world's largest science experiment was fired up in Europe. Basically, this thing is a giant partical accelerator built inside an underground, 17mile long tunnel. What it does is send proton streams in opposite directions around the tunnel at just a hair short of the speed of light. When the particles cicle around and smash into each other, the force of the collision is hoped to simulate the conditions surrounding the "Big Bang". Sounds pretty safe, right? Some theorists worry that such a machine could generate small black holes that would devour the earth, but engineers of the project insist such claims are nonsnense. Anyway, I'm no expert and this thing is far more complex than I could possibly try to summarize in this blog. So, read more about it if you're a closet nerd (like me) and decide for yourself if we should all be worried or not (we shouldn't).
-Dan
