Professor Otto Rossler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen has filed suit with the European Court of Human Rights, hoping to gain an injunction that will prevent the switching on of the Large Hadron Reactor on Wednesday.

The lawsuit argues that the Large Hadron Collider violates the right to life and right to private family life under the European Convention of Human Rights. It sets out a series of arguments that suggest the collider could produce mini black holes that would permanently come into existence and grow uncontrollably.

Large particle colliders have been used by scientists to smash atoms and pieces of atoms together for more than thirty years.The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle collider, or atom-smasher, ever built.

On Wednesday, it will fire atomic particles around its 17 mile circumference, 11,245 times every second before smashing them headlong into each other.

The result will, for a split second, replicate the conditions that some scientists believe existed in the moments immediately after the birth of the universe, known as the Big Bang.

In a space a billion times smaller than a speck of dust, the collisions will create temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun. The purpose of the experiment is to isolate the Higgs bosun, or "God particle" that gives every other particle its mass and weight. But the experiment carries risks.

The first risk is that the internet will be particularly slow on Wednesday -- and here's why. The main site at CERN is also a large computer center containing powerful supercomputers designed primarily for analyzing experimental data.

To analyze it all required linking some 300 similar data systems in over fifty countries, creating a major wide area networking hub. It was a similar, but smaller particle experiment that led to the creation of the world wide web in 1990 by CERN project engineer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

So firing up the new atom smasher could slow down the internet temporarily while all that new data is being analyzed.

Or, it could result in an expected breakthrough in information technology that could speed up the internet exponentially.

Or, it could reverse the Big Bang process and create a black hole that could destroy the universe.

That's the second risk.

Assessment:

I'm not particularly worried about the internet slowing down on Wednesday. If your Omega Letter is late that day, at least you'll know why in advance.

And I admit I am pretty excited about the prospective development of what is currently nicknamed, "The Grid." If the experiment comes off as CERN's scientists have it planned, "the Grid" will render current broadband internet as obsolete as a dial-up connection.

According to scientists involved with the project, the new "Grid" will be so fast it will be able to download a feature-length film file in under six seconds.

For comparison purposes, that's about fifty times faster than it takes to copy a similarly-sized movie from one drive to another within the same computer. If the Grid comes off as planned, the internet would be faster than your own computer.

It would be faster (and much, much cheaper) for users to use internet-based computers where all relevant information, including the operating system, is stored online, rendering hard drives obsolete.

But then there is that whole 'black hole' problem. According to CERN's scientists, there is absolutely no possibility that such a black hole could be produced. But that certainty, all by itself, raises another question.

If they are SO certain about the outcome of the experiment, then why conduct it at all? If you are ABSOLUTELY certain that doing X with result in Y then why bother? If there is nothing to learn, then there's no point in the experiment, and if there are unknowns, then the outcome CANNOT be certain.

What is this Higgs bosun, and why does it bear the nickname, "the God particle?"

Imagine you are at a cocktail party, mingling with everybody else, with everybody more or less evenly distributed across the room. Suddenly, Bruce Willis enters and crosses the room.

As he moves across the room, each time he stops to speak, little clusters of people form, as he moves on, the clusters break apart and people go back to chatting in tiny groups.

But around Bruce Willis, there is always a little cluster, which gives Bruce Willis a greater mass than he would have normally, and therefore, he has more momentum.

Once he starts moving, so does the cluster and when he stops, its harder for him to get moving again because the clustering process has to be restarted.

That's roughly how Higgs bosun works hypothetically. As particles move through the Higgs bosun field, it gives them mass and weight by clustering them.

The Large Hadron Particle Collider is designed to create a Higgs bosun, then smash particles into it to observe its effect on mass and weight.

This would be a good place to explain what a "black hole" is. Generally speaking, a "black hole" is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull.

It's called a black hole because it is so dense that even light cannot escape from it.

In theory, a black hole is the result of a Higgs bosun cluster, and the LHC's opponents fear that the experiment will create black holes within its seventeen mile-long tunnel that could begin to feed on matter and grow until it began to consume the earth's atmosphere, then its matter, and possibly even the solar system.

Not that we'd really know much about it if it did. The first thing to be sucked into the hole would be the atmosphere, so about all we'd have time to notice was how windy it seemed to suddenly get.

So, what are the odds that the world is going to come to an end on Wednesday with a great, sucking sound? They are strong enough for a number of scientists and scientific organizations to file lawsuits trying to prevent the experiment from going forward. (The German suit is just one of many -- there have been others from the UK, US and other countries).

The fact is, nobody can say what the odds are with any certainty. Nobody at all. Not the most senior scientist in the project, nor any of the theoreticians who developed it.

(If they knew with certainty, as we've already pointed out, the experiment itself would be redundant.)

But the courts have refused to block it, and despite the [at least] theoretical risks involved, CERN plans to fire up the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday and put an end to all the speculation.

And, in theory, perhaps all the existing matter in the universe.

So, am I worried? Nope. Not a bit. You shouldn't worry either. In the first place, the difference between the death of a single individual and the end of the world are indistinguishable -- from the perspective of the individual.

And everybody dies, so at worst, it adds one more possible thing that you might die of between now and Thursday.

In the second place, it isn't going to happen. They are looking for the "God particle" in all the wrong places -- the best place to find it is in God's Word. The Bible says the 'God particle' IS God.

It is God that holds the atoms together by the force of His Will.

Should God forget about one atom in your being, you'd go off like "Fat Man" did over Hiroshima in August, 1945.

The Apostle Peter describes what happens when God does allow the atoms to come apart:

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."(2nd Peter 3:10)

But that doesn't happen on Wednesday. It happens at the conclusion of the Millennial Kingdom. We have God's Word on it.

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." (John 14:1-3)