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The '''Large Hadron Collider''' (LHC) is the largest and most ambitious piece of machinery ever conceived and built by man. The [[particle accelerator]], with a circumference of 27km, is located at the [[CERN]] facility with straddles the border of [[France]] and [[Switzerland]].  

The '''Large Hadron Collider''' (LHC) is the largest and most ambitious piece of machinery ever conceived and built by man. The [[particle accelerator]], with a circumference of 27km, is located at the [[CERN]] facility with straddles the border of [[France]] and [[Switzerland]].  

The LHC was powered up on Wednesday 10 September 2008, with the first beams being circulated through the collider. It will reach full power in mid-November 2008, which is when scientists will begin smashing [[particle]]s into each other.

The LHC was powered up on Wednesday 10 September 2008, with the first beams being circulated through the collider. It will reach full power in mid-November 2008, which is when scientists will begin smashing [[particle]]s into each other. This was hampered however as the LHC suffered a mechanical breakdown soon after it was switched on and will not be active again until early 2009.

The LHC has four giant detectors designed to probe new [[dimension]]s, search for the [[Higgs Boson]] (the so called "God Particle", which gives matter and other [[boson]]s mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the [[universe]] might have been like immediately after the [[Big Bang]] (assuming it actually happened).

The LHC has four giant detectors designed to probe new [[dimension]]s, search for the [[Higgs Boson]] (the so called "God Particle", which gives matter and other [[boson]]s mass) and hypothetically to investigate what the [[universe]] might have been like immediately after the [[Big Bang]] (assuming it actually happened).