So, over the next few weeks, if the extraordinary effort to recreate the Big Bang being made at the world’s largest-ever machine crosses your mind, it should not be over the vague concern that a black hole is slowly eating its way through the earth’s crust in your direction. Let there be happiness that a giant, international project — not only European in scope, but incorporating the input of dozens of Indian scientists from frontline research institutes across this country — is taking off, and that humanity continues to learn more about the conditions that gave the universe birth.