[ WP ] Events can be erased from history , changing the past . The more people involved and/or the longer ago the event , the more power it needs .

I stood in the control room, listening to the soft hum of power all around me. The soundproofing blocked out most of the noise, but I did n't need the rattle and hum of generators to drive home the immensity of where I was. I stood in the center of the largest piece of experimental machinery mankind has ever built. 
 
 I rested my fingers on the reflective glass panels that controlled the Large Hadron Collider. 
 
 I smiled softly to myself. The world thought they knew everything there was to know about the LHC. They had heard about the particle physics experiments that could only be run when teravolts of power were flowing through the thousands of miles of electric wiring that ringed the concrete tunnels surrounding me. Experimental particle physics - boring to most of the world. 
 
 Not to me, though. I was the chief engineer and had helped designed this entire structure. The enormity of the power running through it was difficult to grasp. A teravolt was a million million volts. It was enough to power cities, and it was all concentrated here, under my control. 
 
 This was especially exciting because of a few small modifications I had made during the construction. 
 
 I laughed. I could n't help myself. I felt excitement surging through me. 
 
 `` It's finally time,'' I whispered. I entered a key combination that I only knew into the panel in front of me, and the electricity running through the LHC was diverted to new channels. It, shifted, changed, and converged into a power surge greater than any created by man. 
 
 The world went white. 
 
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 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid hurtled through the void of space on a collision course with Earth. It was six miles of solid rock, and at the speed it was moving it would be enough to destroy most life on earth. The dinosaurs would n't survive, and mammals and mankind would rise to take their place. 
 
 Suddenly, with a flash of white I was there. I was both in the control room and floating thousands of miles above the Earth's surface. I felt like a god, and thanks to the power the LHC granted me, for one brief moment I was. 
 
 I reached out and touched the asteroid with one glowing finger, and the energy that was building to a crescendo in the LHC was released in one explosive burst. Dirt and rock exploded from my touch, and the Chicxulub asteroid altered course. Not much, but it was enough. Earth was safe, and the dinosaurs would survive. 
 
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 With the power expended, my world began to go white once more. I felt a jolt of fear. I did n't know if I would survive this. I doubted I would, since the future would be irrevocable altered, but it was all worth it. 
 
 I still remembered seeing the film `` Jurassic Park'' as a child, and imagined I could hear the theme song playing all around me, pouring soundless music into the void of space. The only thing I wanted to do my entire life was see a living, breathing dinosaur, and my dream was finally becoming real. Even if I did n't get to lay eyes on one, I knew they would live on. There was no longer a need for a park. 
 
 I smiled as I faded away. 
 
 I had given the dinosaurs the entire world. 
 
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