The Large Hadron Collider, also known as the world’s largest particle accelerator, is about to go online, creating black holes in its hotter-than-the-sun depths. But will these manufactured black holes swallow life as we know it, as many fear? ...full story at digg
from digg on Fri, Jul 25 2008
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