Is This The End Of Earth As CERN Prepares To Fire?

The title was just to get you to take a look at this next story ;) THE END IS NEAR!! Is that just a few scared scientists panicking, or a legitimate concern as the CERN collider prepares to smash atoms like no other collider has done before. I am excited at the potential discoveries, and less than overwhelmed by the minimal prospect of it creating a black hole that will swallow the Earth.
Besides, how could "god" allow the Earth to be swallowed by a black hole, before O.J. Simpson is found guilty of Robbery/Kidnapping? He wouldn't!!
The story at Yahoon News, by Alexander Higgins, an Associated Press Writer states:
The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.
After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.
"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.
Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing and competing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite.
Five hours later, scientists successfully fired a beam counterclockwise.
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