Big Bang revisited on the eve of destruction?

THE Large Hydran Collider (LHC), which lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, is scheduled to go online today.

Scientists will activate particle beams within the 17-mile-long ring, and the world’s most powerful particle accelerator will begin collecting experimental data.

Despite urgent warnings by many other concerned scientists of resulting catastrophe for the planet, these same scientists say that two beams of sub-atomic particles called hadrons — either protons or lead ions — will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy.