The Local Germany https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Seeking the 'Old Man' at the beginning of time With the €6.7 billion Large Hadron Collider experiment finally kicking into life this week outside Geneva, Switzerland, scientists began smashing together tiny particles at virtually the speed of light, to see what happens. https://www.thelocal.de/20100402/26287 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:46:00 +0200 26287 Litigious woman fails to prove atom-smasher will end world A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world's most powerful scientific atom-smasher. https://www.thelocal.de/20100309/25759 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0100 25759