World's greatest physics experiment to go with a bang
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Today is the day. After decades of preparation and $10bn of investment, scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider and we, fingers crossed, will gain a breakthrough insight into how our world was formed.
Touted as the world's greatest physics experiment, the LHC is designed to recreate the conditions of the universe milliseconds after the Big Bang.
The machine is designed to race protons around a 27km tunnel just short of the speed of light before smashing them together.
In the largest physics experiment ever attempted, protons will be smash into each other at unprecedented speeds, recreating conditions that existed after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago. The scientific world is abuzz with anticipation about what they might discover.
A last-minute legal bid to stop the experiment at a laboratory in Switzerland, on the grounds of public safety has, been dismissed. No major scientific advance was ever made without some element of risk.
But, that said, just in case CERN does open up a black hole which proceeds to tear apart our galaxy, well, we would like to bid our readers a fond farewell. See you in the next universe. (Independent News Service)
