CERN is close to launching their latest experiment, a 27km-long circular particle accelerator, which will be used to (hopefully) replicate a miniture version of the Big Bang. The experiment will run for over 10 years, with the first useful bits of information being returned within the first year. Don’t worry, the probability of the Earth being destroyed during the experiment is only 10 to the minus 40th power.

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