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Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho of Hawaii seem to have been smoking to much stuff lately. I’m saying this because on March 21, they filed a lawsuit in a district court in Honolulu against the European Center for Nuclear Research or CERN. This lawsuit aims to place a temporary restraining order on CERN’s latest and greatest project ever: the Large Hadron Collider. What is it that the L. H. C. does, you ask? Oh, nothing. It just recreates the Big Bang. You know, that awesome explosion that started the Universe?

For those that don’t know (or haven’t read Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons), a large hadron collider has the ability to supercharge protons up to seven trillion electron volts and then afterwards let them collide to recreate the energies and conditions resulting from a “Big Bang.” CERN aims to further understand these forces and presumably apply them for the good of mankind, but the two concerned Hawaiians are worried about something else occurring in the aftermath: black holes that could quite possibly eat up the earth, and even the whole universe. What?