Collision course

Falling A collision with an unforeseen asteroid or an invasion from Alpha Centauri, the world will probab1y not end on Wednesday, but a lot of people will be holding their breath anyway.

At roughly 12.30 pm Indian time, scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, say they will try to send the first beam of protons around a 27-km-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border.

And a generation of physicists, watching from control rooms and auditoriums on the scene, on Webcasts at webcast.cern.ch or on Eurovision will meet their destiny.

The collide14 years and $8 billion in the making, is the most expensive scientific experiment to date and is designed to accelerate protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts and smash them together.

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