Today the Hadron Collider at Cern will be started for the first time (09:00 CET). The project is to create dark matter by colliding small particles at very high speeds, and creating a miniature big-bang. So basically they hope to create matter from energy. Dark matter is a strange phenomenon in the universe that really can’t be explained currently, but it represents about 25% of the energy in the universe. Some critics say that this machine could create a black hole that will destroy the Earth. But I think we’re safe on this one, colliding particles isn’t a new thing, in experiments nor in nature. However, some day humanity will probably regret trying to know-it-all, curiosity killed that cat, and curiosity could also kill mankind very easily.

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