I'm a twenty-six year old 
Some fear debut of powerful atom-smasher
Awesome!
Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated with black holes. I used to have nightmares about one randomly appearing on earth and sucking me up. At seven, I had the brilliant idea of shipping all of the planet’s garbage to a black hole and just dumping it in, like a giant trash compactor. (One day the government will discover my idea, and they will name a junior high after me.)
Within the past few years, I’ve learned about the awesome things about black holes, such as the event horizon and spaghettification. I’ve become really interested in physics, but in the terms of a layman who can grasp the concept and the facts and theories around it, but cannot completely wrap my head around the whole idea.
I’m incredibly excited about the collider. Scientists are hoping to see dark matter and dark energy, and maybe even other dimensions. Even if nothing happens, the idea that we might is amazing. This thing could prove or disprove so many theories and change our view of the world.
Then again, it might just create a black hole, and we’ll all be spaghettified. In which case, they’d better not turn it on until after my birthday.
Stephen Hawking predicted that micro black holes would instantly disappear, but this is the guy whose solution to the information loss paradox was that the information was lost in black holes, but retained in universes without black holes. And then the other physicists giggled and drank punch.
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