THE COST of the experiment is a staggering £4.4 billion. The venue of the experiment is a nuclear research laboratory called European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) based in Geneva. Just below the surface of the France-Switzerland border, a 27 km tunnel was built in order to conduct the experiment. The scientists would be attempting to recreate scenes microseconds after the Big Bang, which happened more than 14 billion years ago and led to the evolution of life on earth. At the centre of this experiment is the Large Hadron Collider or the LHC, which will be used to fire the particles inside the tunnel. The Large Hadron Collider will become the world’s most powerful accelerator with the start of the experiment. This collider is expected to generate enormous speed. Almost seven times the speed ever generated for acceleration. Almost 15 years of research and planning are set to come to fruition with the beginning of this experiment. The LHC will cause a collision of the proton beams at a very high speed, which the scientists will use to recreate the beginning of the universe. Protons are regarded as the building blocks of all matter. This recreation will help the scientists understand the difference between matter and anti-matter and also give them a better understanding and insight into the world of physics.

The experiment is set to create a few small black holes in the tunnel that will immediately disappear. But yet the creation of these black holes during the experiment has led to questions being raised over the safety of the experiments. Scientists conducting the experiment still maintain that though such an experiment has never been conducted by man before, there have already been such experiments conducted in nature itself and hence the experiment is completely safe. Scientists in defence of the project have gone on to add that though there will be black holes created but they will be very minute. The energy that will be released by any two photons will be equivalent to the energy of any two colliding mosquitoes and hence will be extremely small. There had been a similar outrage when the scientists had built the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory located at Long Island. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been functioning normally ever since its inception since the past decade and has done zero damage to anyone.

Thus, it is clearly evident that the project has been undertaken for the common good of the people and has no dangers associated with it. The project will help uncover some of the greatest mysteries that physicists and scientists all across the world have faced. It is a great step, which will lead to newer inventions in science in the days to come. And for all of the cynics who were thinking that doomsday is here, fear not. Your local news channel will not be right this time, it will be absolutely safe.