The world's most expensive experiment is to take place today, triggering a lot of questions regarding the ethics of scientists who are supposedly letting the future of our planet hang itself precariously onto a question mark.
The $7.7 billion project is aimed at recreating the conditions of the Big Bang, which scientists believe created the universe. The experiment will be caried out in the "Large Hadron Collider", in an underground ring tunnel of 27 kilometres beneath the French-Swiss border) that will smash sub-atomic particles together at nearly the speed of light.
A key aim of the experiment is to find the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle" that some theorists believe gives matter its mass. But the experiment could shed light on other mysteries like the existence of supersymmetry, dark matter and dark energy.
Some critics claim it will create "black holes" of intense gravity that could implode the Earth, or that it will open the way for beings from another universe to invade through a "worm hole" in space-time.
Some scientists even say that all this could lead to a Biblical Armageddon where there will be "cloud and fire" and the energy produced from the resulting black holes can lead to "catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis".
Whatever be it, I got a call from one of my friends late in the night yesterday saying, "in case the world comes to an end tonight"!!!
Lets wait and watch to find out what really happens. Till then, Hold on tight folks.
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