The large hadron collider is a very large machine that has
been setup on the border between Switzerland
and France
100m underground and nearing a length of 27000m
With a budget of over 6bn pounds the LHC is one of the most
expensive pieces of scientific equipment ever built with investments and
donations coming from all over the world from several different countries all
contributing towards the cost. There are also many hundreds of scientists
working through the mass loads of data that the LHC collects.
The LHC works by firing hadrons (most well known are protons
and neutrons) that are held together by even smaller particles (quarks) and by
firing these at a very high kinetic energy they let the particles impact to
create by products that were found during the big bang they can observe these
sub atomic particles and use that information to theorise about the universe we
live in.
This is simply amazinly interesting!
