Excerpt: The Dangers Of Playing With Science

In the century following mankind's first footprint on the moon apocalyptic predictions had become a dime a dozen. Each was passionately believed by a few people who were derided as crazies by militant skeptics, while the vast unconcerned majority figure they couldn't do anything to help or hinder any hypothetical apocalypse so they may as well just cross that bridge when it caught on fire.

From religion-based predictions to comets crashing into the Earth to the Y2K bug crashing all electronics to the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 to cosmic destruction caused by the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, every avenue for world-wide destruction had been explored, hypothesised and predicted.

When the Large Hadron Collider actually did cause an apocalyptic event even those who had tapped that as the cause of the end-times couldn’t gloat, because they had gotten the mechanism almost entirely wrong. Some had predicted that the giant atom-colliding machine would create a black hole that would suck the Earth to the size of a pin-head almost instantly, while others had predicted that future groups of Higgs Bosons that didn't want to exist would chronologically reach back to the present and destroy the project.

What actually happened was not something anybody was ready for...