Famous science fiction gadgets became reality

Famous science fiction gadgets became reality. An article in the LA Times that I read a couple months back had me a little worried about planet annihilation. “The end of the world as we know it; Europe’s atom-smasher may solve cosmic enigmas, reveal new dimensions — oh, and open a black hole,” was the title, written by John Johnson Jr.
I was going to write a post about it at the time, but instead of freaking everyone out, I decided to wait past the June 2008 launch date and see if we were actually all going to quietly vanish in a flash or not.