Large Hadron Collider

Hadron collider is the worlds largest and highest energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7TeV/particle or lead nuclei at an energy of 574TeV/nucleus for understanding the deepest laws of physics.

 LHC was built by European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high energy physics.

  On sept 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in main ring of  LHC  for the first time.After various experiments,on 20 Nov 2009 the protons were successfully circulated again. on 23 Nov , first proton-proton collision were recorded.On 18 Dec 2009,LHC was shutdown  after its initial works..it will now be down untill 2010.

 LHC gained considerable attention from outside the scientific community and its progress is followed by most popoular science media. It is also sparked the imaginations of authors of works of fiction such as novels, tv serials and video games...