Daily Mail News – Science
By STACY LIBERATORE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:19 EDT, 5 April 2024 | UPDATED: 06:55 EDT, 6 April 2024
The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator smashed protons together on Friday, bringing scientists closer to understanding the Big Bang.
CERN researchers put three beams of protons into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), shooting them down a 17-mile-long tunnel at nearly the speed of light to recreate what happened 13.8 billion years ago.
The LHC smashed the particles together at unprecedented energy to try to blast into existence massive new particles that are secretly powering our universe.