Large Hadron Collider FAQ

by David Bradley

The Large Hadron Collider is enormous news at the moment. Described as the biggest, most complicated machine ever built it will hopefully help physicists solve some of the great mysteries of space and time, such as: What happened a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Why does matter have mass? Where did all the antimatter go? Are there seven more dimensions wrapped up very, very small indeed? What happens when you make a microscopic black hole travelling at 99.999999% the speed of light in a giant metal ring beneath 100 metres the Swiss countryside?

Well, you can find a short primer, or the LHC FAQ, to help bring you up to speed on the LHC and the so-called God Particle it seeks to find, but forget all that for now and watch the LHC rap instead.