No, really. They are.

From 2007 it will be firing particles at speeds nearing that of light, before smashing them together to re-create the conditions scientists believe existed less than one billionth of a second after the Big Bang -- the birth of the cosmos some 14 billion years ago.

I hope they get rid of that nasty Big Bang that happened before the whole thing. I'd hate to think that the Universe was created by another society that was doing something similar...