Government Seeks Dismissal of End-of-World Suit Against Collider

Calling its claims “overly speculative and not credible,” and saying that it is too late anyway, lawyers for the federal government argued this week that a so-called “doomsday suit” intended to prevent the startup of a the world’s most powerful particle accelerator should be thrown out of court. When it begins operations, the collider will smash together subatomic particles at a rate just short of the speed of light in search of new forms of matter and new laws of physics.