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We are like children waiting for Christmas. - JoAnne Hewett

Compact muon Solenoid.

The biggest detector Atlas.

Pictures of LHC (Large Hadron Collider) near Geneva, Switzerland. It will smash protons with seven times energy and hundred times the rate of the top collider to date, the Tevatron at Fermilab Chicago.

LHC will probe the interactions of the particles down to the unprecendented scale of 10^-17 centimeters, which is roughly the size of universe a trillionth of second after the big bang, when the fundamental forces of nature were born.

Credits : Original photographs by Maximillier Brice / CERN. Davide Castelvechi in New Scientist.

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