An interesting – and revealing – perspective on the Large Hadron Collider, located near Geneva in Switzerland.
The L.H.C. is not merely the world’s largest particle accelerator but the largest machine ever built. At the center of just one of the four main experimental stations installed around its circumference, and not even the biggest of [...]

Finding the so-called Higgs boson, or “God particle”, is only one of the objectives when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is started up in Geneva shortly. What is seen or discovered prior to the emergence of the Higgs particle is just as important.
However, if the theorists are right, before it ever finds the Higgs, [...]

A possible explanation for the on-going operational problems of the Large Hadron Collider.
Essentially, the theory is that the Higgs is so destructive that no possible future universe of ours contains one. Thus, any effort to find the Higgs in the present is doomed to failure.

Brian Cox on the amount of data the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will generate once it is operational:
The sheer quantity of data the LHC will generate – estimated at a petabyte per month – presents an enormous challenge in terms of sorting the digital wheat from the chaff. Banks of computers at CERN will sift [...]

The Royal Society of Chemistry got thinking recently that “Large Hadron Collider” (LHC) wasn’t really much of a name for the giant atom smasher that is the… Large Hadron Collider, so they decided to hold contest to see if something better could be devised.
As a result the name “Halo” came to light. Upon hearing this [...]