Date with the Big Bang - or disaster; Expert verdict It's billed as the biggest physics experiment ever and there's a chance its results could be catastrophic! Prof ROB BROWN, of Huddersfield University's School of Applied Sciences, looks at the romance and the risk of the Large Hadron Collider.(Leaders)

From: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | Date: April 15, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Prof ROB BROWN

IN a few months the biggest physics experiment in history will be carried out, at the Large Hadron Collider.

With luck it will unravel some of the great mysteries of the Universe - from questions about the structure of atoms to what happened immediately after the Big Bang.

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. It's a 17 mile long tube, formed into a giant ring and buried 50 metres underground at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics close to Geneva. It cost pounds 2.6billion, of which the UK ...

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