Large Hadron Collider - LHC

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The Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile long particle accelerator being developed by CERN, in hopes of finding the Higgs-Boson particle.

The LHC is an international research project based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where scientists, engineers and support staff from 111 nations are combining state-of-the-art science and engineering in one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted.

The LHC is the latest and most powerful in a series of particle accelerators that, over the last 70 years, have allowed us to penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of matter and further and further back in time. The next steps in the journey will bring new knowledge about the beginning of our Universe and how it works, as the LHC recreates, on a micro scale, conditions that existed billionths of a second after the birth of our Universe.

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Perceived Dangers

Although there is no proof to suggest that the Large Hadron Collider is a dangerous experiment, there is also no proof that it is a safe experiment. Many scientists believe that the accelerator is capable of producing mini-black holes, which could expand and suck the earth in.

Since the goal of the LHC is to re-create the big-bang, albeit a smaller version of it, many people dislike the idea of a big-bang going off in our backyard. Other concerns are that the LHC can produce what are called "strangelets" or matter that turns everything it touches into strange matter.

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