Supercolliding things

As many of you know, the Large Hadron Supercollider fires up real soon now, trying to make little black holes or the Higgs boson or something. It got asked about at the Ask a Scientist thread over on the Librivox forums, and Steampunk gave a nice description of what might happen if a tiny black hole actually got created.

He also posted a link to this explanatory cartoon. Even non-scientists are likely to be amused. :)