World to meet awesome fate

Some scientists object to CERN’s new Large Hadron Collider because it might create black holes that would eat the world. In addition to these mini-black holes, the LHC could conceivably produce stable strangelets — balls of tightly-packed strange quarks that might gobble normal matter like Pacman — or even quantum vacuum collapse, in which the universe pops like a balloon and reality is destroyed. Obviously those opposed to these events are losers who have no idea what is awesome.

In a side note, catch this naysayer’s description of a particle accelerator:

In a particle accelerator, science smashes all kinds of tiny particles into each other to learn more about matter

Science loves to learn, and if he has to smash a few things together, so be it.

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