Yep. Open those portals CERN. Do you know what the key to the bottomless pit is AbaraXas? Does anyone know?
Hey! I've got a really good idea. Let's hit the God particle with everything we've got and see if we can break it. What's the harm?
That's actually not funny. I am no great fan of Carl Sagan's politics, but he had an interesting solution to the Fermi Paradox (The question; If there should be other sentient technological civilizations out there capable of communicating across interstellar space, why haven't we heard from them?) Sagan's answer was what he called the Shiny Red Button hypothesis. That is, every technological civilization that enters a high-tech age (of computers, sub-atomic, high energy / quantum physics) encounter some avenue of research and experimentation that is too irresistible to ignore - so they can never avoid tinkering with it - bringing catastrophic results for their race.
One candidate for that may be the remaining mysterious force, Gravity. When we detonated the first atomic bombs, there was roughly a 3% chance calculated that the blast would ignite the oxygen in the atmosphere causing a catastrophic event that would destroy Humanity. The physicists and politicians figured that risk was smaller than that of allowing the Axis to potentially win the war, so they went ahead with detonation and the rest is history.
We know a lot less about the force of gravity in a quantum sense than we did about sub-atomic nuclei in 1945, yet we continue to study and experiment with gravity and there have been successful experiments (with more planned) to tweak gravity using massive EM fields and other exotic techniques to generate modifications to gravity waves.
The Sun is held in stasis by gravity. If it were to have the gravity along the surface weakened by only 1/1000 th of 1% over an area of a single square mile, it is likely that it would explode and destroy the entire inner solar system including Earth. There is risk involved in tinkering around with elementary forces like Gravity that are not fully understood.
