The Large Hadron Collider is even worse than backwards.

Imagine a group of scientists wanting to know about how a car works, so the pull the hub cap off and start using it as a frisbee...

That would actually be something, but no, its worse than that.

Imagine a group of scientists wanting to know about how a car works so the take it completely apart, throw away all the bolts and the fluids, and then study the metal pieces for years. Are they ever going to find out anything about car-ness? Never in a million years.

That is what the scientists at the LHC are doing. They will NEVER find anything useful, because they threw all the magic away.

However, they may be all about destroying the universe. So far they are only doing it one atom at a time.