The Large Hadron Collider is being built 300 feet underground Crozet, France. It's purpose is to discover the "God Particle" (Higgs Boson) in other words...what makes up the universe.
National Geographic has an article about the LHC in this months issue. There is even a cool photo tour of the collider.
There is the slightest worry that the LHC might be capable of creating a mini-black hole. But the bigger concern is that nothing new at all will be discovered. The collider is very expensive - somewhere between 5 and 10 billion dollars. About what the USA spends in Iraq every 2-4 weeks. The center of particle physics technology has moved from the USA to France with the building of the LHC.
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