So that's OK then...

"Critics have previously raised concerns that the production of weird hypothetical particles called strangelets in the LHC could trigger the mass conversion of nuclei in ordinary atoms into more strange matter - transforming the Earth into a hot, dead lump."

When the Large Hadron Collider fires up and gets those baryons and mesons all jiggy then it'll be time to put the Raybans on, lean back in the hammock and sip the G&T...safe in the knowledge that us scientists couldn't get it so wrong...could we?