Click to play videoNew Delhi: The world's most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking the secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), housed in an underground tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference, will recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, which many scientists believe gave birth to the universe.
"It's been an immense engineering and scientific achievement. It's the biggest scientific project ever constructed in the world," project leader, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Lyn Evans, said.
Starting Tuesday, a 27-kilometres-long underground tunnel will smash atomic particles travelling at the speed of light against each other. That will trigger a miniature Big Bang - the explosion that created the universe.
Scientists are hoping it will also crack many other secrets about the universe.
"One very important question is the missing mass of the universe. We now know that we can see only four per cent of our universe, 96 per cent is a complete mystery to us today. We hope the LHC will help us to elucidate where that 96 per cent is coming from," Evans exlained.
Funded by 20 countries, including India, at a whopping $ 4.4 billion, the experiment will go on for a few years.
Detractors say it will create a black hole to swallow up the whole world. Will it? Don't bet on it.
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