The new scientific wonder of the world was switched on today after 14 years of preparation. Europe's Large Hardon Collider is the worlds biggest 'Big Bang' machine (simulator). For those of you unaware of the Big bang Theory - its the theory on how our universe came to existence. Its use is intended to help us probe things such as dark matter, missing antimatter, and unseen dimensions of space.
Less than an hour after being turned on the beams of LCH made its first full clockwise circuit. However, it will take a year for LCH to reach its full potential. Once it reaches its full potential the machine will produce two streams of visible protons spinning in opposite directions around an underground racetrack at 99.999999 percent of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second). When the two waves of protons slam into each other, scientists expect particles to melt into bits of energy up to 100,000 times hotter than the sun's core!! Thus replicating the state the universe was like an instant after it came into existence.
More than 10,000 scientists, engineers, and other workers were involved in this revolutionary research opportunity.
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