Google.com.au today celebrated the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider with the above graphic.
Obviously the world didn't end last night, unless the black hole swallowed the Earth and we're now in another dimension, ala The Quiet Earth.
There is a website where you can check if the Large Hadron Collider has destroyed the world: http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/.
I just wish they had an RSS feed so that I didn't have to keep checking back there every hour or so...
not a blade of grass...
...moves without the supreme lord's permission, and i assume that extends to protons, too. unless he agrees, they won't be able to destroy the world--and i always thought that was lord siva's job, anyway.
on the other hand, so far they only had one beam of proton packets run around their collider. if i remember correctly they want to smash some into each other later this year, but are planning to go for the 'big bang,' at full speed only after shutting down for a winter break, some time next year.
ys phani.