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And a lawsuit to shut it down? – Some people thought that CERN was some sort of scientific conspiracy of science, and plaintiffs from several different countries have asked their courts to halt its operation for a rather incredible reason: they claim that CERN may create a black hole that will swallow up the Earth. Meanwhile, results from the experiments being carried out by the there are finally coming out: It created even more particles than they thought it would. In fact, so many particles have been created that some scientists worry that they will gum up the works.
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Brought down by a bird – CERN (the Large Hadron Collider, now powered up in Switzerland) is scaring scientists in an unexpected way: They’re afraid they WILL discovered the “God particle.” This could top a lot of the other bad things that have happened recently.

In the LHC proton beams will race around in a ring deep underground in hopes of detecting a theoretical particle that quantum physicists call the Higgs boson, which will confirm current theories about the creation of the universe. If CERN discovers the Higgs (and no OTHER mysterious particles), then these theories will be validated. The problem then will be that particle physics will have nowhere left to go in its search for the truth. It will have come to a dead end.
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Some questions are so hard to answer that we have to really think about them (Anne Strieber reads her paper about this for subscribers this week). For instance, if time travel exists, why can’t we go back in time and kill our grandparents (which means we would never have been born)? The principle of least action means that could never happen, because nature always takes the simplest and shortest route to the solution of any problem, meaning that no effort toassassinate an ancestor can succeed if it would mean thatyou could not exist. Scientists think that this principle is what will protect us from dangerous repercussions from the CERN collider as well.
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Two labs?the CERN Hadron Collider in Switzerland and Fermilab in the US?are racing to discover the theoretical particle called the Higgs Boson, which has been called the “God particle.”

Fermilab, located in Illinois, says the odds of its own accelerator finding the particle before CERN does are 50-50 at worst, 96% at best. In both labs, accelerators are searching for the God particle by crashing sub-atomic material together at super high speeds.

Both machines hope to see evidence of the Higgs by colliding sub-atomic matter at very high speeds. If it exists, the Higgs should emerge from the debris.
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