Large Hadron Collider Helps Understand More About the Universe

Exciting news for scientists and science lovers around the world. We are now a step closer in understanding the behaviour of the universe as the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), broke the world record for proton acceleration, ergo enabling researchers to smash particles into each other with enough force to shatter them into the smallest building blocks of matter.


Such setup which is 27 kilometres in size, physicists hope, will help man understand phenomena such as dark matter and antimatter which, if you saw the movie Angels and Demons, was what Robert Langdon was trying to save Vatican City from. But more importantly, such milestone will help us understand the creation of the universe billions of years ago. Experiments scheduled next year plan to recreate conditions like those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

However, it may still take several years before, in theory, the Large Hadron Collider, a $10 billion project funded by 20 European member nations, can detect the elusive, still undetected, Higgs boson – the particle or field, get this, that is believed to give mass to other particles. Such discovery would prove one of the greatest in Physics.

Watch the video below to awe at the grand scale set-up of the Large Hadron Collider explained by “rock star physicist” Brian Cox.

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