CERN – the world's biggest Science Experiment
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest science experiment ever built
As the Large Hadron Collider – the fastest particle collider ever built – is switched at CERN in Switzerland, Professor Brian Cox talks to CERN fan and particle enthusiast, actor Alan Alda and theoretical physicist Brian Greene.
The collider is 27 kilometres in circumference and the biggest science experiement on the planet and the most complex machine of any kind. It's purpose is to recreate the conditions in the universe less than a billionth of a second after it began so we can understand how the world works.
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