The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works by generating two beams, one of protons and the other of antiprotons, and sets them travelling in opposite directions in a 27 kilometer u
…nderground pipe. Both particle streams will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light by a series of magnets. At certain points in the pipe, the beams will be allowed to collide, causing high speed "crashes" between the protons and antiprotons. The collisions will disintegrate the particles into many smaller particles, and special detectors will measure the consequences of any collisions and attempt to identify the fragments. (MORE) 
