OOh new Fodder from the charming lads at CERN who don't know when to keep quiet!
James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.
Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.

"burrow into the rock around the tunnel"!! that's priceless.

A: It won't! At the temperatures we generate in the collisions at LHC, even protons and neutrons don't survive, never mind atoms and molecules. (BC)

That one's for you Warren. These guys are absolutely priceless, I was just disappointed he didn't say something like "just the same as a gopher digging up your garden".

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D933TB700.html