In this interactive presentation, Dr Cristina Lazzeroni, a Royal Society University Research Fellow from the University of Birmingham, will reveal the secrets of the world’s largest accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and how the LHC experiments hope to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the Universe and our existence.
With the use of practical experiments, Dr Lazzeroni will explain what scientists wish to discover, and why they want to collide two systems with the energy of 150 elephants running at 70 mph in the eye of a needle.
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We have recorded Dr Lazzeroni's Tuesday afternoon presentation, and you can watch it on your computer now if your computer meets with our technical requirements.
Launch the player to watch Particle physics and the mysteries of the early Universe.
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This presentation is one of several exhibition extras held during the exhibition.