Read about the Large Hadron Collider last year when it was first switched on. The complex is in Europe, somewhere between France and Switzerland. It's a huge one! 
The Large Hadron Collider is basically a particle accelerator...my little knowledge of physics tells me that basically means hurtling particles (protons?) at great speeds and see what happens when they bang into each other. That's supposed to generate excitement among the engineers, physicists, scientists, etc, etc. And true enough, they celebrated with toasts of champagne. 8)
I am no Physics buff...but an article in the National Geographic (I think it was last year's) caught my eye because of the magnanimity of the project and also because it had the potential of creating tiny black holes. So remembered Stephen Hawking's radical theory regarding the black hole...that black holes do not consume every thing but instead release some form of mangled form of energy and matter. And now we have a machine which can create tiny black holes. How's that for progress? ... though there are some who say if the old theory is correct then, these tiny black holes may start the destruction of the world around it .... of course another group says not possible since black hole decays quite quickly.... see how theories are flung around here... actually no one really knows for sure, right?
Scientists are trying to create the Big Bang to learn more about our universe... this perhaps may prove another biggie in theoretical physics. Theoretical physics is a very abstract branch of physics, thinking into the possibilities and probable concepts .... truly a special breed of people - among them Isaac Newton, Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking...
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