The Big Bang? What, surely is it? About 13.7 billion years ago, there was nothing. And then, the Universe was born. The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain how it happened.
Located in Geneva on the France- Swiss border is the world's longest particle- physics laboratory. The 1954 founded CERN, the French acronym for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research possesses the collidor. The LHC as the collidor is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the Big Bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the Universe.
Scientists fired the first beam of protons around a 27, 36 kilometre- long tunnel on Wednesday in science's next great step to understand the makeup of the Universe. The Large Hadron Collider- built since 2003 at a cost of $3.8 billion provides scientists with much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms in a bid to see how they are made. The protons were fired into the accelerator below the Swiss-French border at 0732GMT.
The organisation, known by its French acronym CERN, is firing the protons- a type of sub-atomic particle- around the tunnel in stages, several kilometres at a time. Once the beam has successfully been tested in clockwise direction, CERN will send it counterclockwise. Eventually the two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to see how they are made.
The experiment is an attempt to unlock the secrets of the Universe.
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