The most expensive sience experiment

The £5bn machine is for one thing, to find out if there is such a thing as dark matter. Some say when they start it up and collide the protons that they will create a new black hole and it will destroy the earth and all that is on it. The engineers have not yet said when they will initiate the "big bang" that they have spent 13 years building up to. The LHC is the most complicated and ambitious experiment ever built, they have been plagued by equipment failure, cost over runs, and construction failure. The start up date is two years late. The LHC should answer one very simple question: What is mass? i learned in sience class that mass is how things take up space. I think that it is kind of worth it, enough to find out more information about space and its "ways". but not enough to build something that can destroy us. well we did build the atom bomb and that could of destroyed us, but that was between countries this atom smasher is known world wide. i think it would have been better if they could have tested in on a smaller scale, or build a machine that has more than one purpose like this one does. to find out what atoms are made of and if there is really dark matter. during the winter the LHC will be shut down and fine tuned for the collisions at full energy. Eventually, two proton beams will be shot in opposite directions around the LHC at close to the speed of light, completing about 11,000 laps each second. At selected points the beams will cross paths, smashing together near four massive "detectors" that monitor the collisions for interesting events. Scientists are hoping that new sub-atomic particles will emerge, revealing fundamental insights into the nature of the cosmos.