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Mankind is either at the beginning of a great era of discovery, or it's the end of the world
On Wednesday, after 20 years of work by 10,000 scientists and engineers, researchers start the hunt for the God particle, or the Higgs boson, which could help explain the origin of mass in the universe.
Enough energy will be produced to recreate the conditions that existed one trillionth of a second after the big bang. Built at a cost of £5bn, the world's largest test tube should help solve other problems that have been taxing scientists for years such as "dark matter".
Sceptics have filed a law suit in courts in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the project fearing that the experiment may create quasars – a mass of energy fuelled by black holes.
One such sceptic, retired professor Otto Rössler, claims that these quasars could eat the world from within.
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