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We have not been swallowed by a black hole.
On Wednesday evening particle physicists near Geneva were scheduled to fire up the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions in the cosmos.
The Large Hadron Collider is designed to accelerate sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light and then smash them together.
The collision will briefly stoke temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the Sun.
Doomsayers think it could produce small black holes which could swallow the earth but other scientists laugh that off.
You can rest easy now.
Wednesday night's events are merely the start of a long and cautious commissioning process of testing equipment and procedures before starting experiments a few weeks from now.
