Last updated 13:29, Thursday, 25 September 2008

Mankind imagines it’s rather clever, but out in the wide yonder the universe is unimaginably vast and unfathomable.

The Large Hadron Collider

Since my early years I have always believed that there is no end to anywhere, despite Einstein’s theory of relativity. The concept is so immense that no-one (certainly no-one living now) is ever likely to prove it.

So it is with the Big Bang – if it ever happened. As William Gill notes (News & Star, September 22) there must have been a chain of events preceding the Big Bang.

Will there be another one when the whole of everything collapses back again into the black hole to end all black holes? Or will our universe collide with another which we can’t observe yet, even with advanced telescopes?

The fact is that, in relative terms, we know next to nothing.

If the Cern experiment is a success and a mini-black hole is produced on earth, we may all disappear in a puff of dust and no-one will be the wiser.

JOHN WARMINGHAM
Wetheral

• I was interested in William Gill’s letter regarding the Large Hadron Collider experiment with his quotation from Genesis.

Presumably the ‘light’ came from all the coal fires?

MICHAEL TRAVERS
Cargo