Large Hadron Collider being turned on September 10th

But why take the risk?

To win the war! Without adversaries, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. Our antagonists may have transcended the human form, and our activities may be surrogate of requisites for survival, but the power process of goal, effort and attainment of goal still remains.

As the asymptote of our quality of life-time graph approaches, expect experiments of magnitudes a thousand or a million times greater than petty $6 billion endeavors like this.