The CERN is only a few miles away from my place, and - besides tentacles - I look almost like you

People from the CERN made this video - I don't like rap but this is cool - because there is some sort of "controversy": a few people and scientists are saying that the CERN will create a black hole and that the earth will be destroyed... I haven't made that much physics but that sounds a little far too stretch.The CERN has been created in 1954 and didn't had one major incident - I can't even remember of a small one (that doesn't mean there could not be one, but the people working there are the cream of the professional...) btw the WWW was invented there by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau...

When the train was invented, they were people and scientists saying that this was impossible because our body would never survive such a speed (If I remember well they wanted to go as fast as 30km/h) or that we will die suffocating because the speed of the air would not let us breathe... hopefully, we didn't stop at those considerations...

I will not enter the usual debate about what fundamental physics can bring us that is good... I think that if you have entered an hospital today the answer will be obvious. But if you are interested in reading more about the CERN and the use of basic science, there is a nice paper there: CERN - The use of basic science