Will the Big bang experiment bring the world to an end?

We have not been swallowed by a black hole.

On Wednesday evening particle physicists near Geneva were
scheduled to fire up the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission
to answer some of the most perplexing questions in the cosmos.

The Large Hadron Collider is designed to accelerate sub-atomic
particles to nearly the speed of light and then smash them
together.

The collision will briefly stoke temperatures 100,000 times
hotter than the Sun.

Doomsayers think it could produce small black holes which could
swallow the earth but other scientists laugh that off.

You can rest easy now.

Wednesday night's events are merely the start of a long and
cautious commissioning process of testing equipment and procedures
before starting experiments a few weeks from now.