Will European physicists destroy the world?

Way down, in a circular tunnel, beneath the border of Switzerland and France, there’s a particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider.  Real life European Doctor Strangeloves are going to flip the switch on September 10th, and run the risk of a one in 1000, or one in a trillion, depending upon your estimate, of turning the universe into a cosmic, flatus-producing Orgasmatron.

….LHC opponents fear that the earth could be destroyed by vacuum bubbles, magnectic monopoles, microscopic black holes, or strangelets produced by high-energy proton-proton collisions planned by CERN physicists.  “Vacuum bubbles” have been described as a kind of “cosmic cancer”.  If it turns out that there is a lower energy state into which the universe could settle, the LHC might produce “bubbles” of such a state which would then expand, ripping apart the earth and then the entire universe.  If magnetic monopoles were produced they might induce protons to decay and thus destroy normal matter.  Microscopic blacks holes might grow by gobbling up the earth.  And strangelets are combinations of quarks that theoretically interact with normal matter and change it into strange matter.

Strangelets?  Normal matter changed into strange matter?  Code Pink and Jimmy Carter have already proved that this is happening right now - and Michael Moore is an 86-long black hole, one drool pause away from gobbling up the earth.

Still, this could be Europe’s current version of the Final Solution.  They never really abandoned the quest.