‘Big Bang’ experiment explained
Unfolding Mystries of Creation
It has cost around £5bn, is colder than outer space and will heat particles to 100,000 times the temperature of the sun.
Oh and it’s already seen off legal action from two blokes who reckon it could swallow up the entire world in a giant black hole.
After 25 years of planning and construction, scientists at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, will switch on a huge experiment this morning which, they say, will tell us more about the origins of the universe and could lead to thousands of new inventions.