The Large Hadron Collider is one of the largest machines in the world. Its purpose is to fire subatomic particles at each other so we can better see how they function. Find out more about this massive machines in Colossal Machines, on Thursdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK

Researchers accidentally turned lead into gold inside the Large Hadron Collider while conducting experiments mimicking the Big Bang. | Hashem Al-Ghaili

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See how we smash protons inside the Large Hadron Collider at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Protons collide to create two muons (shown in long blue tracks) and two electrons (shown in short blue tracks). The emerging green clusters represent the energy in the ATLAS calorimeters, which lie outside the inner tracking detector. This is the same signature that a #Higgsboson – decaying into two muons and two electrons – would leave in the detector. Could we be seeing a Higgs boson in this video right

50 years ago, CERN scientists collided particles in the first hadron collider ever built. On 27 January 1971, CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) produced the world’s first proton–proton collisions. Physicists had planned this machine in the 1960s, based on the idea that smashing two particle beams head on would give much higher energies than colliding a single beam of particles with a fixed target. This first hadron collider helped change the views of members of the physics community, who d

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