科学家们正在Europe's CERN research center进行有史以来能量最大的原子碰撞，碰撞可能产生supersymmetric particles and even the evidence for extra dimensions。同时，碰撞也可能create microscopic black holes，有人担心这样的微小黑洞也可能吞噬我们居住的地球。反对者已经向美国联邦法院个欧洲人权法院提起诉讼，要求在通过进一步全面安全评估之前暂时停止试验。

科学家们要人为制造一个microscopic big bang来理解宇宙，理论推理没问题，动手实践是否会付出代价，代价有多大，没人知道。

可怕不？恐怖主义可怕，无约束的科学也同样可怕，是吧？
见：http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556999/?GT1=43001和相关连接。

Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York， "But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television," he added. "That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe."

"It will be extremely exciting if the LHC did produce black holes," CERN theoretical physicist John Ellis said.  "OK, so some people are going to say, 'Black holes? Those big things eating up stars?' No. These are microscopic, tiny little black holes.  And they’re extremely unstable.  They would disappear almost as soon as they were produced."