The CERN Hadron collider is scheduled to fire up this fall in Switzerland to study the Big Bang and workings of the universe.. Physicists say that the collider will crash billions of particles into one another every second, and will create small, short-lived black holes in the process. While most particle physicists believe this is a safe and fascinating experiment, other particle physicists believe more research is needed to ensure that the black holes will NOT persist and grow, for if they do, they would eventually swallow the planet and galaxy... And yes, you would have a bad day. Yeah, yeah, science leads us to progress and all that. Scientists favoring start-up say that the possibility for a cataclysmic event happening or a black hole persisting and growing in one of the billion collisions per second is small. SMALL??!!!!
Humans... the smartest species... The sense of self-endangerment by some of our species is greatly outweighed by the magnitude of their collective curiosity. And if curiosity killed the cat, what can we say about this collective curiosity of some of our brightest scientists?
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