Kalam allays fears of 'Dooms Day'

NEW DELHI: Allaying fears of the world coming to an end with the physics experiment at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Wednesday said it will not create any threat to the people, but would be beneficial to the scientific community and the world.

"It is just that the scientists in Geneva want to establish their own belief of the creation of universe as caused by the Big Bang," Kalam, a scientist, told reporters on the sidelines of a function at the Army Hospital here.

Narrating his personal experience when he visited the CERN site in Geneva recently, Kalam said it will not create any threat to the lives of the people, but would help in enhancing their living standards.

The scientist said the experiment was good for physics as it would provide an idea to the scientific community on the amount of power and energy generated during the "Big Bang".

Kalam said the scientists were just firing the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions in the cosmos.