CERNBeneath the Alps, the mother of all particle accelerators nears completion. The Big DealSeven top physicists tell us what they'd most like to discover in CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Ask the ExpertMIT particle physicist Peter Fisher answers questions about particle smashing at the LHC and more. Biggest Machine Ever BuiltWhen the Large Hadron Collider goes online in 2008, it will be largest and most expensive machine ever created. But why build an $8 billion behemoth to search for the smallest particles in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson has given the question some thought. Cosmic Perspective
Neil Tyson explains how the study of the smallest particles offers insight into the biggest event that ever was, the birth of the universe. Video Extra
Join us in a CERN sing-along full of amazing facts.
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