We've tested and tested this thing, you know.
It's been built to the highest of specifications.
You really shouldn't be nervous.
All the doom-saying is just
superstition.
We know what we're doing. Really.
It's quite well designed.
Twenty-seven tonnes of
superconducting magnets
let us control the flow of protons
and our detector array is unparalleled.
We didn't just jump into this.
Looking for new forms of matter
isn't like shaking the pillows on the sofa.
Except for the fact
that you've no real idea what will fall out.
We can theorize, of course.
There are usually pennies
and the remote you swore you put down just a second ago
and something must be causing all that gravity.
But the technique is much more precise, I promise you.
And when it's done, then you'll be proud of us.
We'll know more than has ever been known,
have reached into deeper spaces
than have been known since
the first fire.
We'll have laid bare the
heart of matter.
Heard the strings that play
so quietly
you might mistake them for silence.
Seen the lights that make the darkness.
Found the forces that bind us together,
the love between atoms,
the secrets of their hearts.