Bottling The Big Bang - CERN & LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will collide protons and lead ions at very high energies to recreate conditions shortly after the Big Bang. It consists of a 27km ringed accelerator and four large detectors that will observe collision outcomes. The LHC is an enormously complex engineering project involving accelerating particles to near light speed using superconducting magnets and detecting collision results using specialized detector technologies to help explain fundamental questions in physics.