Scientists involved in the project say the laboratory was built underground because the Earth’s crust provides protection against radiation. The tunnel complex runs along a 17-mile (27-kilometer) circuit. Straddling the French-Swiss border, the $9 billion CERN collider complex is buried at a depth of up to 575 feet (175 meters). Today, however, CERN is more famous – or perhaps infamous is the better word - for an upcoming experiment in which scientists will play God in an effort to recreate the conditions immediately following the ‘Big Bang’ event that gave birth to the Universe millions of years ago.įor those who are in the dark about CERN and the controversial objectives it hopes to achieve, here is a quick primer. In September, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash together sub-atomic particles at nearly the speed of light, an unprecedented experiment that has some of the leading voices in the world of science - and religion - sounding the alarm on the risks involved.ĬERN is perhaps most famous for its discovery in 2012 of the elusive Higgs Boson, the so-called ‘God particle,’ which allows other particles to build up mass as they pass through the Higgs field.
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