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A Wednesday. Will the world survive it?
September 8, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider will fire particles around the tunnel. It will then smash protons -- one of the building blocks of matter -- into each other at energies up to seven times greater than ever achieved.
LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010.
Image: One of the biggest quests will be to find a theorised particle called the Higgs Boson, which could explain nagging anomalies about mass. The Higgs has been dubbed the 'God particle' as it is believed to be everywhere but is so elusive.
Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
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