The Big Bang Part Deux

In like, one month, scientists are going to finish construction on a "Large Hadron Collider" which will apparently recreate conditions right after the Big Bang. They will shoot two beams of subatomic particles in opposite directions in a tube they've built underground on the border between France and Switzerland and we will know the workings of the universe!

The only problem is the apparently somewhat rational fear that running the Large Hadron Collider may result in the creation of black holes and/or strangelets. Seriously? Weird black holes fucking with time and space itself could result and they are still DOING this? But don't worry, apparently it's only a 1 in 50,000,000 chance that doomsday will happen as a result of the commissioning of the collider.
Oh and strangelets, by the way, are described by wiki as:
A strangelet or "strange nugget" is a hypothetical object consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. The size could be anything from a few femtometers across (with the mass of a light nucleus) to something much larger. Once the size becomes macroscopic (on the order of meters across), such an object is usually called a quark star or "strange star" rather than a strangelet. An equivalent description is that a strangelet is a small fragment of strange matter.. That explains it.

Whatever, all I'm saying is that if I'm late to work sometime in mid August, it's because I got sucked into a black hole, and it's an hour earlier in my parallel universe.