Name: CERN's supercollider
Uploaded: 2008-04-29T01:47:00Z
Duration: 14 min 39 s
Description: "Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.

"Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.

CERN's supercollider

The Large Hadron Collider recreates conditions from less than a billionth of a second after the universe began, pushing protons around a 27-kilometer ring at 99.999999 percent the speed of light. By colliding these particles inside giant detectors, scientists hope to discover fundamental truths about matter, forces, and the origins of everything from atoms to galaxies. The search for the elusive Higgs particle and the nature of dark matter drives this unprecedented global scientific effort. This grand experiment promises to deepen humanity’s creation story with every breakthrough.