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CERN to launch scientific experiment that could create black hole

By More4 News

Updated on 31 July 2008

In two months Europe's leading physics laboratory, CERN, begins the biggest scientific experiment there's ever been.

Science is supposed to address the great crises of humanity, not cause them, however apparently this physics experiment soon to begin in Switzerland could do just that.

According to a lawsuit filed in America there's a chance it could end up destroying the world.

David Fuller reports on whether we're all about to be sucked into the universe's first man-made black hole.

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