From its beginning, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has captured the imagination of the world.
As the largest and most powerful machine on the planet, the 27km underground ring in Geneva is capable of answering questions we have never been able to ask before. By smashing subatomic particles together at speeds approaching the speed of light, it can confirm the existence of widely-predicted particles, discover new ones, and could potentially even create microscopic black holes that lead to other dimensions.
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Abigail Beall 