Large Hadron Collider

Throughout the past few decades, scientists have made astounding discoveries regarding the way particles at the subatomic level interact with one another. There has not been an instrument as instrumental in the pursuit of particle knowledge as the Large Hadron Collider. Click here!

The LHC is a giant underground building 27 kilometers in circumference and 574 feet underground, dedicated to the research and development of particle physics. Built by CERN (European Organizations for Nuclear Research), the LHC is a worldwide group project, including over 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries. The main purpose of the LHC is to accelerate particles (protons, neutrons, muons) at speeds close to the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) in separate beams, and then smash them together to record observations and data. Click here!

Higgs Boson Particle
In 2012, scientists working at the LHC discovered the Higgs Boson particle (named after Peter Higgs, only the most famous particle physicist after Max Planck), a building block within every single particle in the world. The Higgs Boson particle is responsible for giving particles its mass. Only through the observations of the Large Hadron Collider have we been able to understand the Four Fundamental Particle Forces that shape our world. Click here!