Hadron Collider: Will we be sucked in?

Better than on the edge of a desk!

THE “big bang machine” which some fear could cause the end of the world will be switched back on in October.<

The £4bn large hadron collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.

Buried deep under the the Franco-Swiss border at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), the machine is designed to collide opposing particle beams at near light speed.

The hope is the titanic collisions will recreate – in miniature – the almost unimaginable conditions at the very dawn of time, the so-called Big Bang.

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