The Large Hadron Collider is the most expensive and complex scientific experiment ever built. This video shows how the contraption accelerates and slams together subatomic particles and what comes out of the collision.
What Happens Inside the Large Hadron Collider? [Video]
- By George Musser, Rose Eveleth on April 18, 2012
![What Happens Inside the Large Hadron Collider? [Video]](https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/66809BC3-E06D-4F8D-AA601D434E9732F9_source.jpg?w=590&h=800&206880CC-6747-46CB-835069CD661DB326)
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George Musser
George Musser is a contributing editor for Scientific American, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Alpha, 2008) and of Spooky Action at a Distance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). This article won the 2011 Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics.
Credit: Nick Higgins
Rose Eveleth
Rose Eveleth is a writer and producer based in New York City. She's dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. She's also obsessed with the sounds things make - so if you have anything cool for her to listen to, she wants to hear it! You can follow her at @roseveleth or check out her website roseveleth.com.