Physicists: 1. Tinfoil-Hats: 0
An increasingly vocal group of concerned citizens have been raising the alarm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will kill wipe out planet earth and kill everybody ahead of schedule. In response, the technicians at CERN today cranked up the atom smasher to record high levels – two streams of protons with energies of 3.5TeV (Trillion electron-volts) were smashed headon into each other around lunchtime today. Luckily, the earth is still here and nobody died. Looks like every single physicist and rational scientist in the world were right, and the wearers of tinfoil hats were wrong. I’ll certainly sleep easier tonight…