Quote - Professor Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, said of the CERN Collider:

"Collisions at these and greater energies occur millions of times a day in the Earth's atmosphere, and nothing terrible happens."

Thats easy for him to say..!

LOL, yep.  However, he is pretty darn good at this stuff--proton smashing and combining as been going on for the last 14 or so billion years.  We wouldn't be here without it----Jan