this just might be your tipping point Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang'
LHC generates mini Big Bang
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
Advertisement8 November 2010 Last updated at 17:01 ET Help The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a "mini-Big Bang" by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun in the circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border.
They hope to learn more about the plasma the Universe was made of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago.
Dr David Evans who is one of the researchers working on the experiment spoke to the BBC's Ben Brown about his excitement.
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Collider produces 'mini-Big Bang'
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