Scientists in Switzerland will flip the switch today in what is to be considered a great step forward in particle physics.
The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic undeground particle accelerator near Geneva. It's being used to "re-create" the "big bang" 13 billion years ago as the which is one theory on how the universe was created.
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Courant.com quotes a Yale Professor,
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"It could be the most exciting thing since Einstein," said Yale Professor Paul Tipton, part of a multinational research team, including physicists at Yale and Fairfield University, that has spent years designing and building the collider.
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Large Hadron Collider in operation today
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