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Hadron collider starts producing results

The Hadron collider that smashes microscopic particles together to replicate 'the Big Bang’ has shown new and interesting results.

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The Hadron collider that smashes microscopic particles together to replicate 'the Big Bang' has shown new and interesting results.

The Laboratory located near Geneva, spreads over 27 kilometres up to 175 metres below the surface costing over $4.8b to create.

Researchers are hoping to find the illusive 'God particle' also known as the Higgs boson particle which many believe is responsible for creating planets and stars.

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The collider accelerates sub atomic particles around a 27 kilometre ring smashing them in to one another at speeds never seen before.

“We are looking somewhere completely new where the human race has never studied physics before” said Professor John Butterworth.

With researchers from the United States ahead of the pack in the pursuit for the 'God particle' the European competitors are quickly catching up.


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