Scientists and researchers in Switzerland prepare for a date with destiny as the Large Hadron Collider nears its big ‘switch-on’ tomorrow, Wednesday 10th September 2008.
Three decades after it was originally conceived, the world’s most powerful and eagerly awaited physics experiment is ready to go.
The LHC is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010.
Housed in a 27km tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago and could ultimately replicate the possible ‘big bang’ theory for the creation of planet Earth.
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