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The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator. It's in a tunnel on the France-Switzerland Border, and its main ring is 27km in circumference.

Its job is to confirm the "standard model" of particle physics, in part by finding the "Higgs boson," which needed more power to find than any accelerator existing before the LHC was completed. The LHC is capable of applying 7 trillion electron volts of energy to a proton it's accelerating, which is seven times higher than the Tevatron in Illinois can do.

What it WON'T do is eat the world. Any black holes it makes will be submicroscopic, and unstable.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a underground ring 27 kilometers in circumference. It is used to smash protons together at speeds close to the speed of light (approx. 2.997*108). These protons are sent in "packets" which then collide with other packets. There are ultra sensitive particle detectors at impact points that record the collision. The purpose of the LHC is to determine if the Higgs Boson particle exists.

The LHC is the "Large Hadron Collider". It is the largest scientific experiment in the world. Used to collide sub-atomic particles into each other at enormous speeds and measure the results (man's way of recreating the big bang in a controlled, monitored, recorded environment). The collider itself is enormous, 17 miles long (or 27Km), and, the particles are travelling soooo fast that they go round the collider (which is oval shaped) over 11,500 times, a SECOND.

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