Scientists in Switzerland are planning to use the Large Hadron Collider to detect and possibly create black holes, hopefully giving mankind its first look at a parallel universe, according to NewsHour.
The Hadron Collider made headlines after it found the "God particle," the subatomic particle that gives mass matter, and was deemed a machine of destruction by many who believed the science behind the accelerator was two steps away from being mad science.
But the Geneva scientists continued to work and have now begun the process to push the collider to its highest settings, which will hopefully open an entire new universe.
Though, when many think of different universes, the comic idea of wide gates opening and exact duplicates come to the imagination, but the science behind the particle accelerator is nowhere near the outlandish science fiction from TV and film, according to Metro.
"Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualized," said Cern researcher Mir Faizal of the University of Waterloo. "What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions."
Researchers are hoping that the experiment will reveal the miniature black holes, proof of the existence of another universe, but even if it fails, that too could lead to more information, according to the Daily Mail.
