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This August, in Switzerland, the worlds largest super collider or atom-smasher will be switched on. What the hell is an atom-smasher? It’s a device that takes particles and speeds them up to as close to the speed of light and then collide it with an atom to see the insides of it. Pretty cool eh? Well, what if this super collider brought about THE END OF THE WORLD!

Some in the scientific community, and the world, believe that this new atom-smasher, which is about seven times more powerful then the current one, could create a black hole that would consume the world. Pretty damn scary eh? There is even a court order going on in Hawaii that is trying to block the start up until more research has been put in to it as “the Collider may have unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet.” Wow…

The other side says that’s not possible. The smasher is going to be doing collisions that happen everyday due to cosmic rays that have hitting the earth for… oh… the last 4 billion years.

Regardless what happens, the smasher is expected to make discoveries in to Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Even it’s surmised that it could find extra dimensions in space as it looks for vibrating strings that make up the building blocks of our whole universe. But are all these discoveries worth it if we’re putting the very existence of our planet at risk? To me, it’s seriously scary. If it happens will we even know before it’s too late or will it just be over and done with?

Just because we can doesn’t mean that we should. Scary, scary stuff…

Oh, and Chrono Trigger is coming to DS.

YEAH BABY!