Update: March 1 2009: Penn State Researchers say it can't possibly happen: "The world is constantly bombarded by energetic cosmic rays from the depths of space, some of them inducing particle collisions thousands of times more powerful than those that will be produced by the LHC, If these collisions could create black holes, it would have happened by now."
The really smart people at CERN are building an enormous particle accelerator to try to find the Higgs Boson.
Some people think that the instruments that are capable of finding it will destroy the universe.
The concepts behind this are pretty difficult to understand, but here's a video that helped me understand. (I don't know why, but a synthesized voice doing rap about the LHC brings tears to my eyes)
Quiz for extra points - After you've watched the video - what kind of atoms are protons smashed against?
Update - Well, now they're not so sure. The scientists are almost certain that it won't destroy the earth, and the solar system, etc
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