‘Big Bang’ experiment starts well
Sep 11th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: TechnologyScientists have fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash protons together with cataclysmic force. Researchers hope the LHC will shed light on fundamental questions in physics.