The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest
and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up
on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to
CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-
kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number
of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the
particles along the way.
Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams
travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to
collide. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate
beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are
guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic
field maintained by superconducting electromagnets. The
electromagnets are built from coils of special electric cable
that operates in a superconducting state, efficiently
conducting electricity without resistance or loss of energy.
This requires chilling the magnets to ‑271.3°C – a
temperature colder than outer space. For this reason, much
of the accelerator is connected to a distribution system of
liquid helium, which cools the magnets, as well as to other
supply services.
Thousands of magnets of different varieties and sizes are
used to direct the beams around the accelerator. These
include 1232 dipole magnets 15 metres in length which
bend the beams, and 392 quadrupole magnets, each 5–7
metres long, which focus the beams. Just prior to collision,
another type of magnet is used to "squeeze" the particles
closer together to increase the chances of collisions. The
particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is
akin to firing two needles 10 kilometres apart with such
precision that they meet halfway.
The Large Hadron Collider
The LHC is the largest machine in the world. It took
thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians
decades to plan and build, and it continues to operate at
the very boundaries of scientific knowledge.
All the controls for the accelerator, its services and
technical infrastructure are housed under one roof at the
CERN Control Centre. From here, the beams inside the
LHC are made to collide at four locations around the
accelerator ring, corresponding to the positions of four
particle detectors – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.

Wonderful!

fascinating

so wot exactly is it's application for human use?

Progress has been made due to this machine


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THE GOD PARTICLE. . . . That bad boy particle. Lol

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Prodigee:
so wot exactly is it's application for human use?

to find the beginning of the universe and how it was formed

i first read about this machine in dan brown's blockbuster novel "angels and demons" it was a work of fiction until i later discovered that the LHC holds the guiness world record of being the largest machine on earth... It is situated underneath the soil surface