Large Hadron Collider

Imagine a safety company crashing cars into a wall. Now imagine a group who are worried that doing so will encourage car crashes with the media explaining that they're just testing how strong the wall is. Now you know how I feel when GMTV did an in-depth report into the Large Hadron Collider.

The Big Bang, Origins of the Universe, Radiation to Cure Cancer, were phrases used extensively. They dragged on a physicist to explain that it wasn't going to cause the end of the world/universe although the only thing he did really explain correctly is that these collisions happen all the time the only difference here is that we're initiating them at a point we can watch what happens.

So despite this in-depth report not once was it mentioned that the main purpose for this machine is to locate the Higgs boson, which would help plug some gaps in the Standard Model (how physicists think particles are arranged), explain mass, and possibly help produce the Grand Unified Theory, you know unimportant things like that which aren't easy to produce whizzy graphics of.