Big Bang scientists receive death threats

Scientists behind a controversial atom experiment to recreate the big bang have received death threats.

The threats were sent by critics who fear the Geneva particle accelerator experiment could end the world and kill all of mankind.

On 10 September the boffins will flick the switch on the 17 mile long machine causing atoms to smash together possibly revealing what happened when the universe came into existence 14 billion years ago.

But until then, they are taking irate phone calls of people who fear it could create a devastating black hole which will 'eat' the world.

Some have threatened to kill staff at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) ... but they will take some getting to, they are 100m under Geneva's western suburbs.