Um, they already turned it on. And the collisions that they're trying to study happen all the time in our atmosphere. They just want them to happen where they can watch.
The chance of the collider destroying itself, much less the world, is infinitely small. If the physicists who built it thought that it was even remotely possible that it might simply blow up, why would they spend so much money on it?
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Date: 9/20/08 20:57 (UTC)The chance of the collider destroying itself, much less the world, is infinitely small. If the physicists who built it thought that it was even remotely possible that it might simply blow up, why would they spend so much money on it?