Death Threats For Physicists Hoping To Re-Write History

Come September 10 and the much awaited Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will finally be activated. But affiliated scientists are already inundates with fervent pleas to stop their work and even death threats.

For the inauguration of the 17 mile long tunnel, scientists plan to fire a proton beam of 450 GeV and expect to learn nothing new. But following these fireworks, intense work will begin on colliding much more powerful beams. Scientists hope to generate enough energy to detect the elusive God particle - The Higgs Boson - whose existence is posited by theory yet has never empirically been proven.

But experiments of such epic proportion are making more than a few fee queasy. Some have speculated that such energy rays could engender black holes that could ingest our planet. Religious groups have expressed concern that scientists are now really trying to go to far.

Prominent physicist Frank Wilczek is being targeted with death threats. But all the scientists have brushed aside criticism as part of their commitment to understanding the deepest secrets of our universe.