Everything About Big Bang Experiment

Could it create a black hole and cause the end of the world? There has been speculation that the explosions inside the LHC could create a black hole, which doom-mongers have suggested would swallow the earth. But these early collisions have proved them wrong though they will point out the machine is still only running at half power.

What does the Large Hadron Collider do?

It smashes together particles smaller than atoms at near-lightspeed to break them down into their constituent parts and recreate conditions which existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.