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Large Hadron Collider Physicist Linked to Al Qaeda

2046228644_05507000b3 Okay just for a minute, stop yakking about Obama winning the Nobel lottery, and let’s talk some real news. Real scary news.

An unnamed French scientist was arrested Thursday, suspected of ties to terrorism. The scientist was a contractor working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle accelerator ever built, which in theory has the potential to create small black holes or equally world destroying strangelets.

“His work did not

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