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10 years ago today, the Large Hadron Collider, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC particle super-collider is the most complex experimental facility ever built, taking 24 years to complete. Created by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, it is the largest single machine in the world, measuring 17 miles (27 km) and buried underground in a tunnel.
By smashing together protons inside the LHC, physicists can test the unsolved questions of physics and better understand the nature of the most basic building blocks of universe—and they made a significant discovery within four years… (2008)Scientists from six continents and 100 countries conduct experiments there, but one of the most significant outcomes, so far, was the discovery of the long sought-after Higgs boson particle on July 4, 2012, an elementary particle that had been theorized to exist in 1964 but never observed. The Higgs boson was the last remaining piece of what we call the standard model of particle physics, which covers, now, the 17 known particles. CERN announced last month their excitement over the first observation of the Higgs boson decaying, or breaking apart.
Using a massive computer grid based in 42 countries to analyze all the data—tens of petabytes per year—physicists also hope…
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