As you probably are well aware of, the latest particle collider was fired successfully in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday September 10, 2008. A series of trial runs were started by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground tunnel ring. Although the accelerator is still a year from full power, this test proved that it does give physicists much greater power to smash the components of atoms together to learn about their structure.
As a few reports have said about the project being dangerous to levels of "extreme" peril, James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN said "it's nonsense"
Gillies is speaking about the objections of some who feared that colliding protons could destroy the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong, they can suck in planets and other stars.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being described as the largest physics experiment in history.
Lyn Evans, project leader for the LHC di not want to set a date, but hopes that the experiment will be ready "within a few months."
Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions at the same time in the hopes of recreating the conditions a split second after the Big Bang.
CERN
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