The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
Doomsayers are trying to stop the largest and most advanced scientific experiment the world has ever seen, one that has the potential to unlock many secrets about our universe and answer questions physicists have asked for centuries.  The LHC is an enormous particle accelerator and is not the first - just the biggest. Some doomsayers are afraid that it will create a micro black hole that will destroy the earth, a claim that scientists emphatically dismiss, while other religiously-motivated individuals want to stop the experiment, …