At 4:27a.m. EST, scientists at Geneva's European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) activated the Large Hadron Collider. Touted as the most powerful microscope in the world, physicists believe the particle-smashing device will help us better understand the origins and evolution of the universe.
There are those, however, that think a black hole could emerge from the proton collisions. Those folks pleasantly refer to the microscope as the doomsday machine. And though CERN physicists say a variety of studies and reports make that fear unfounded, we couldn't help but feature a computer-generated idea of what it would look like if Earth was sucked into a black hole.
Check out a less apocalyptic vision of the Large Hadron Collider after the jump.
Sep 10th 2008 By Asylum Staff
CERN Atom-Smasher Activated, Scares the Protons out of Us
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Thursday 11 September
By geneshott
yeah keep messing with mother nature. you ---hole's are probably going to kill us all I think that nato should shut this maddness down.
concerned earthling
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Monday 15 September
By Not a Luddite
Right, because why grow as a race? Let's just stay in the dark, hating one another and being small-minded and violent. No need for advancement or enlightenment because we're perfect as is.
Friday 12 September
By DoctorBob
Not to worry. IF a Black Hole WOULD happen to form, and IF it swallowed us up, it would happen faster than the blink of an eye. You would never know what hit you. One split second you would be there, and the next split second you and the entire planet would be gone. Don't worry about it. There are much worse ways to die. Seriously. (Who wants to live forever?)
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