And what’s that shit supposed to be?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that the collider will confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model, and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.

It is theorised the Large Hadron Collider will create minute black holes that will quickly evaporate. It may also provide evidence of the existence of other dimensions during its expected operating lifespan of 10 to 20 years.

"It could be that there is a whole new universe a millimetre away from our heads, but at right-angles to the three dimensions that are here," Cox said.

However, Cox also admitted there was a tiny, tiny risk the device could create conditions that would obliterate the planet and all human life.

"The probability is at the level of 10 to the minus 40," Reuters reported him saying.

Potential threats put forward by the scientific community and other watchers of the experiment include the creation of a stable black hole or the creation of strange matter more stable than ordinary matter.

However, Cox also admitted there was a tiny, tiny risk the device could create conditions that would obliterate the planet and all human life.