"I hope you'll make black holes," Stephen said with a broad smile.
We exited the cargo lift that had taken us underground into the five-story cavern housing the ATLAS experiment at the CERN lab, the legendary European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN's director general, Rolf Heuer, shuffled his feet uneasily. This was 2009, and someone had filed a lawsuit in the United States, concerned that CERN's newly constructed Large Hadron Collider, the LHC, would produce black holes or another form of exotic matter that could destroy Earth.
