LHC explosion shakes the planet

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Genva lies in ashes as tremours were felt from as far as middle east as an accident at the Large Hadron Collider see the largest explosion ever recorded.

The 100 Megaton explosion, 3000 times that of of Hiroshima, has left a path of destruction stretching across a 50km radius of the Frenh Swiss border.

The Big Bang

The homes and lives of hundreds of thousands have been lost, Many parts of France and Switzerland are being .

David Camoron states 'this is a time for us all to stand united, our neighbours need us' as world leaders meet in an emergency meeting later this evening.

Professor Brian Cox says 'theoratically this could be a case of a reproduction of mini big bang' seen back in 2010, when the LHC succesfully collided ions instead of protons, although we need to access the information in full.

Initial fears from the European Organization for Nuclear Research are that notibile amounts of anti matter has also been produced, the key ingredient to a black hole.

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