There have been several concerns surrounding CERN's current project to build the most powerful particle accelerator to date, the LHC. With a precise circumference of 26,659m, it is the largest particle accelerator in the world and holds the potential of accelerating two 7 TeV beams of protons into a corresponding 14 TeV head to head collision at a rate of 600 million collisions per second.38 With such high energies at their disposal many precautions have been taken to validate the safety of such a project. One concern involved the fear of creating tiny black holes that could grow large enough to swallow the Earth.