This week CERN will fire up it's particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider lies in a 27-kilometre-long underground circuit and is set to begin low-energy operations on September 10th. Despite fears among the general populace, the group in charge of safety at the facility says in a report that the experiment poses no threat to mankind. "Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programs on Earth – and the planet still exists," they wrote. Physicists from around the globe will be involved in the experiment that aims to answer "the secrets behind the laws of the universe, both on the tiny scale of quantum mechanics and the huge domain of galaxies and black holes." CBC Story here.
