Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) are preparing to launch a landmark experiment in the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located near Geneva is to be started up on Wednesday in a bid to enhance man's understanding of how the universe was created. The LHC will attempt to recreate the conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang. It will use giant magnets housed in cathedral-size caverns to fire beams of energy particles around a 27-km circular tunnel where they will collide at close to the speed of light. The experiment has been criticised by some sceptics who fear that the collisions of protons could eventually imperil the earth by causing micro black holes. CERN has rejected such claims as nonsense.
(Deutsche Welle)
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