The Large Hadron Collider

Below is an simple explanation of what the Large Hadron Collider is really about .... Picked off a comment from Slashdot about the LHC ...

" It always kinda amuses me to remember that 7 TeV is equal to ~1 microJoule. So this incredibly massive and complicated machine is required just to reach energies that are a million times less than what I can get by flicking my pinky finger. Though they do put all that energy into a single subatomic particle and carefully guide them into hitting each other right in front of their detectors, while every time I try to flick a proton with my finger I end up hitting a ton of them and they go flying off every which way, so I guess we still need the LHC "