Café Scientifique - Bishops Stortford

To pinpoint the smallest fragments of the universe you have to build the biggest machine in the world. To recreate the first millionths of a second of creation you have to focus energy on an awesome scale." - The Guardian

In just a few months particle physicists will be switching on a multi-Billion pound atom smasher in Geneva, called the Large Hadron Collider.

This machine will probe the most basic building blocks of nature and shed light on our understanding of the masses of particles.
Excitingly, the machine must uncover the explanation to a missing piece in our understanding of the weak nuclear force. Speculation is rife as to what will be found from the mysterious Higgs particle to "supersymmetry" or extra dimensions of Space-Time.