[***Mr D***]

Copied from another forum.

Makes you think though.

The Large Hadron collider under France/switzerland is being turned on on the 10th September.

It fires microscopic particles around a 27km ring at close to the speed of light in opposing directions, and then smashes them together.

These particles are tiny, just a small bunch of atoms, but there going so fast, the collision has the same impact energy as a freight train doing 140mph.

Some Experts are worried that the colision energy, designed to simulate conditions a few millionths of a second after the universe was born, will have so much energy, but concentrated into such a small space (measured in billionths of a millimeter), that there is a good chance that micro black holes could be produced.

Most scientists reckon that they do not pose a danger as they will 'evaporate' as soon as they are made.

But some think there is a small chance the any black holes created could instantly start self feeding on surrounding matter, and grow to eventually consume the entire planet in a few seconds.

Lets hope it goes well then.