What is the LHC?

We all ponder our place in the universe at some point. There is a machine that can now make our wonders into more of a reality. This machine is called the Large Hadron Collider or LHC for short. It was invented by C.E.R.N and built by a collaboration of over ten thousand scientists and engineers from over 100 countries. It lies in a circumfrance 17 miles long and is one of the largest and most complex experimental facilities ever built. The machine collides two proton beams at extemely high speeds. The result has been something known as the "god particle". Basically a recreation of life being formed in the big bang and confirming something known as the "Higgs field". This field allows light to turn into matter. Very mind warping stuff. Some scientists fear that the refiring of the LHC in 2015 could result in black hole formation and detroy the earth. Im not a part of that bandwagon and I think the discoveries that will be made from the reasearch will allow for technology and transportation upgrades in every facet of our civilization as well as an understanding of where all life actually stems from. Is this the end of religion as we know it? Is this going to destroy all life to make room for new life? So many questions to answer in our near future and I for one will be glued to my computer when this takes place because its entirely groundbreaking and exiting.