DOI 8 May 2008
SKY NEWS (LONDON)—The world's biggest scientific experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, will switch-on within weeks. Particle collisions should begin in August or September 2008. Thousands of scientists have spent more than a decade building the Collider at the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva. The equipment is in a 27 km tunnel 100 meters beneath Switzerland and France. Atoms will race around at virtually the speed of light in an atmosphere colder than outer space. The millions of collisions will create temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun. Scientists hope that they will uncover secrets about the universe's structure and reveal more about dark matter. Source: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91221-1315292,00.html (Reliability: 8)
Comment: Some individuals fear that the collider will create black holes and swallow up the planet, destroying life on Earth. However, scientists have dismissed such claims. A great deal of research, money, and brain power has gone into this project, making it more likely to succeed than the average science experiment. However, science projects do not always work. According to one scientist, if the project fails, "We will have assembled the world's most expensive piece of modern art."
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