The end of the world, CERN version, lol. I've been to the Stanford accelerator (SLAC) and realized in all of 60 seconds this is just another academic/government boondoggle to allow prolonged adolescents to play all day.
The same thing is happening, and has for years, at the University of Rochester laser fusion lab. I worked there. The talk by the little bitches who don't know jack about science was one day laser fusion would be ignited and create a catastrophic explosion, lol. OK, right. The only thing that blew up was the yearly budget. Now that DOE owns it, its sucking up money even faster.
All these big science projects are merely taxpayer funded scams. The true discoveries throughout history have been made by either individuals at home or private companies just making new products.