Fatal Instinct

Scientists hope the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, will unlock the secrets of the elusive ‘God Particle’ when switched on later this year.

300 feet below the French village of Crozet lies the world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider. The goal being building such a monstrosity - no less than unraveling what the universe is made of. In a few months this machine will fire two beams of particles at close to the speed of light at one another to essentially see what happens when they collide.

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