Thank you for that sparkling display of self-imposed ignorance, n00b...
Out of this door might come something, or we might send something through it, said Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN, briefing reporters including the Reg at CERN HQ earlier this week.
The God particle found by CERN could destroy the universe, Hawking wrote in the preface to a book, Starmus, a collection of lectures by scientists. The Higgs Boson could become unstable at very high energy levels and have the potential to trigger a catastrophic vacuum decay which would cause space and time to collapse and we would not have any warning to the dangers, he continued.
Hawking is not the only voice in the scientific wilderness predicting possible catastrophe if CERN continues in the atomic fast lane. Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson told Eugene Mirman on his Star Talk radio program that the experiment could literally cause the planet to explode.
Ask yourself: How much energy is keeping it together? Then you put more than that amount of energy into the object. Tyson was confident of the result: It will explode.