Bhopal: A 17-year-old girl committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district fearing the end of the world in the most ambitious scientific experiment in Geneva to fathom the mysteries of creation, the police said Wednesday.

Chhaya, resident of Rajgarh district's Sarangpur town, consumed tablets of sulphas (an insecticide) Tuesday after watching news on TV channels about the Geneva experiment in which the world's largest collider will recreate conditions of the earliest universe.

"She was immediately rushed to M.Y. Hospital in Indore where she breathed her last Wednesday," a police official told IANS.

The world's most ambitious yet historic scientific project, undertaken by CERN, is about to fathom the mysteries of creation, besides finding extremely elusive 'Godlike' particles known as the Higgs boson.

The $10-billion Geneva based CERN project, an acronym for European Organisation for Nuclear Research, involves over 8,000 scientists from 85 countries, including 200 from India, which has contributed $41 million worth of resources and precision equipment.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, lies at the heart of the experiment, that started Wednesday in a circular tunnel 27 km long around the collider, some 35 floors below the surface of the earth.

Scientists controlling the experiment started it by sending the first proton beam zipping through the LHC's 27-km circular tunnel. The collider will accelerate the protons to nearly the speed of light and crash them together, a process that will take four to eight weeks. Scientists anticipate the first collisions between Oct 8 and Nov 5.

The LHC is anchored on Indian made jacks, weighing 32 tonnes each, which have to be located with extreme precision.

India has presented CERN with a huge bronze statue of Nataraja, Lord Shiva performing his dance of creation and destruction.