If critics are to be believed, the end of the universe will begin coming Wednesday, September 10, when the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes into action located 300 feet underground near the French-Swiss border.  In what could be the world’s biggest scientific experiment till date to know how the universe was born, speculations are rife that it will trigger the end of world and universe.

All this fuss is related to the experiment that commences on September 10 when the physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), located near Geneva, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).  The LHC is a $10 billion 17-mile long particle accelerator lying in a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland.  When it gets switched on, this atom-smasher will become a virtual time machine, revealing what happened when the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago.

One of the chief goals of the LHC experiments is to find the elusive Higgs boson, the only fundamental particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that has not been directly observed.  The Higgs boson plays a key role in explaining the origins of mass in other elementary particles.  They hope to shed some light on the invisible material that exists between particles known as "dark matter" as very little is known about that which make up most of the universe.

With the discovery of new particles, the scientists aim to recreate the conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big and provide vital clues to the building blocks of life.  The scientists involved in this project have waited for this moment for two decades and they are on the verge of creating history, but the research team is up against protests and demonstrations by critics who have dubbed this as a Doomsday test.

Concerns have been raised that turning on the LHC could lead to the ultimate destruction of earth and universe, and hence the research should be stopped.  TV news channels and tabloids have come up with their own theories of mass destruction and end of life speculations that have created an environment of uncertainty and unnecessary panic world wide.  It has also been reported