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A Wednesday. Will the world survive it?
September 8, 2008
The LHC reproduces in the laboratory, under controlled conditions, collisions at centre-of-mass energies, less than those reached in the atmosphere by some of the cosmic rays that have been bombarding the earth for billions of years, says the Journal of Physics, allaying fears of the world being sucked into a virtual black hole created by the giant machine.
Image: Picture taken March 22, 2007, near Geneva shows technicians assembling element of a layer of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid).
Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
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