We're Alive! We're Alive!

Woo hoo, we haven't all been sucked into a black hole centered on Switzerland!

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (called CERN to keep us all confused, or maybe it has something to do with being a French acronym) today fired up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang. And we survived it.

See, some people thought that using the LHC would create a black hole that would swallow up Earth and everybody on it.

But that didn't happen. At least, my molecules do not appear to be being ripped asunder by powerful forces!