Multi-Billion dollar experiment.

im not even going to get to play warhammer >.> shall we make a goodbye zelaron thread just in case?

Well, nothing has happened yet. Keep in mind it takes like 1-2 months to fully power up.

They aren't actually colliding any particles yet; they're just going to spin the beam of particles around (initially at approximately 7% of its intended level of energy usage, which is less than what has already been used in Fermilab), and collide them in October.

Anyway, it can hardly hurt to keep your crowbar close to the mad scientists, just in case:

Haha, that's great.

LOL, Nice!

I wouldn't expect anything to happen. You've got to figure the Earth is being hit by particles that are much more damaging every single day than what they are doing here. As well, this experiment is controlled so that they can study it. The people claiming the world is going to come to an end just don't know what they are talking about (I'd assume it's safe to say religion is involved one way or another).

It's hard to really compare this to what happens in nature, though, because what happens in nature isn't happening necessarily the same way.

Either way, Hawking radiation makes sense. It's unlikely anything will go wrong.

I'm actually excited as to what they may find. Possibilities of how the Universe was formed? The last peice of the element table? Proof of other dimensions? So many different things are being put onto the table with this experiement, but it will probably be years before anything substantial is proven or disproven.

I'm pretty excited myself. I still think it's a waste of money :P