As you may have already heard, the world is probably going to end tomorrow.
Or probably not.
It depends on what news network you watch.
While some of you are thrilled at the prospect of finally being able to make use of your bomb shelter and dust off your Armageddon Emergency Kit, the rest of us are shivering with excitement with what's going down at the Large Hadron Collider tomorrow morning.
Cern have spent over a decade building the LHC research facility, and if you are confused as to what exactly they're doing, let me give you a simple explanation:
They have this big, underground ring that runs 17 miles from the Cern center near Geneva, into France and then back again. Tomorrow, they're going to shoot subatomic particles around this ring at practically the speed of light. The particles will collide, thus (hopefully) recreating a mini Big Bang.
The point of all this is to not scare religious folk into thinking that this is The End, but to try and unlock the secrets of The Entire Universe. If this experimentation is successful and does in fact produce new particles, they could do everything from making faster computers to understanding how exactly Black Holes work.
For all of you who are distressed by this and are worried that we're all going to die - have no fear. This experiment is being run by the same people who invented The Internet.
Also known as Our Own Personal Lord and Savior.
Check out this nifty video of the LHC being built!
Image via NYT