The LHC has gone online, and the sky is surely falling.

If you're a techie, chances are that unless you've been absorbed in Family Guy re-runs you've caught the news that the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) has gone online underground at the CERN. The LHC is set up to smash a couple of particle beams together at near-light speed to examine out the underpinnings of the universe...or, at the very least, drive the paranoid masses into a frenzy of fear.

The crux of the experiment is to, essentially, recreate the big-bang in a smaller-bang. From this, scientists are looking for proof of the Higgs particle and Higgs field. Not only this, but they are also trying to figure out why the universe is so filled with dark matter. My theory is that the universe is reflective of my soul...but this experiment will probably prove that wrong.

Now, the fear is that by smashing these particles together at 99.9999% the speed of light, miniature black holes will be formed. Or that time and space will cease to exist as the universe creates a new universe and possibly resets the entire clock with ground-zero of the bang taking place in downtown Switzerland. I have to say, I am not overly scared...except when scientists are saying:

it is a controlled environment, and we aren't likely to see a new universe create itself

Something around the words "aren't likely" is unsettling for me. When someone goes about checking the fundamental building blocks to my reality, I often find myself wanting a little more assurance in the range of "impossible" for galactic destruction.

It's exciting for scientists and fans of quantum physics to find out that what actually happened at the dawn of time, or to find out what makes matter matter (ha!). It's a little disconcerting for the masses who are unnerved about possibly ending the universe. For me, I look at it as this: If the universe ends, it's really my credit-card companies that are going to get the short-end of the stick...and if there's life after singularity they better not expect to collect.