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Will the Large Hadron Collider finally find the elusive God particle? Watch this streaming BBC video to find out! [7:38]
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The World Wide Web began at the Swiss nuclear research facility, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), and that may be its biggest claim to fame.
"Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project. ...
Apparently, some people think that the name "Large Hadron Collider" fails to capture the terrific grandeur of the device's mission.
A Hadron is a kind of particle, made of quarks. There are two kinds of hadrons, baryons (made out of three quarks) and mesons (made out of a quark and a quirky quark known as an antiquark).
Have they tried just looking behind the sofa? Or perhaps behind Richard Dawkin's sofa?
Bob
"They seek it here, they seek it there, that damned elusive Higgion"
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