Testing LHC, Is this the End of the World??

Testing the LHC by injecting the first protons into it on Wednesday..Is it the end of the World??

Does the effort of 5000scientists, engineers, technicians for two decades spell doom for the inhabitants of the earth??

The Large Hadron Collider(LHC), the mega machine, 100metres below ground, crafted to unveil the deepest mysteries of matter. LHC will accelerate sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light and smash them together, this aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of the cosmos.

It may determine the outcome of novel theories about space-time : does another dimension - or dimensions - exist in parallel to our own??

Whizzed to within a millionth of a percent of the speed of light, the particles will be the first step in long-term experiment to smash sub-atomic components together, briefly generating temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the sun in a microscopic space. Analysts will then pore over the wreckage in the search for the fundamental particles.
This would simply mean entering new territories in physics.
(Matter, Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This(smashing ions together) would be an attempt to pierce the secrets of the Universe. One of the gargantuan laboratories installed in the ring, where a swathe of delicate detectors, will spot the collisions.)

LHC can smash protons or ions - particles known as hadrons - together at a whopping 14 teraelectron volts (TeV). This, they believe, will help them explore the infinitely small. This also should find an answer to the puzzle as to how particles acquire mass.

Some experts are also hopeful on an early LHC breakthrough on the question of Supersymmetry. It postulates that particles in the Standard Model have related, but more massive, couterparts. Such particles could explain the unsettling discovery of recent years that visible matter only accounts for some 4% of the Universe. Enigmatic phenomena called dark matter and dark energy, the rest.
LHC boasts of a big breakthrough in penetrating these mysteries.

CERN(European Organisation for Nuclear Research) assures the public that the LHC will not create black holes that could engulf the planet or an unpleasant hypothetical particle called strangelet that would turn earth into a goo, that other scientists claim.
The other scientists also claim that testing LHC would activate volcanoes which mean more volcanic eruptions, more earth quakes, tsunami with greater intensity, and many other natural calamities..(sub-atomic particles are accelerated to the speed of light, which means that a great force would be acting underground altering greatly the earth tectonics(earthquakes, tsunamis,..),it could even rip this earth apart).

The End of the WORLD..this is what the newschannels have been airing for the last 48 hours..
This takes me back to year 1999. They said all the computer databases would crash..Y2K coming...
This is 2008, n did people stop using computers to store the data..??

Few more hours left before Wednesday, September 10, 2008 arrives..
and what am I doing in my last hours??
updating my blog on the LHC..
i told my friend i'd complete his assignment..if i don't, u know whom to blame..[:P][;)]