Basically around 20 european nations built a huge electron accelerator underground in France/Switzerland (the loop closes at 27km) in order to test particle behaviour. Amazing stuff, one worry is if they get it wrong, i'd be possible to create mini black holes and basically destroy the earth. Good read if you're wasting time at work like me

"The total energy in each beam of protons in the LHC is equivalent to a 400 tonne train (like the French TGV) travelling at 150 km/h"

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Con...hatLHC-en.html

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