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Brian Cox: CERNs supercollider This is the Large Hadron Collider. Its 27 kilometers in circumference. Its the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted. Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine. What we do is we accelerate protons -- so, hydrogen nuclei -- around 99.999999 percent the speed of light. Right? At that speed, they go around that 27 kilometers 11,000 times a second. And we collide them with another beam of protons going in the opposite direction. We collide them inside giant detectors. Theyre essentially digital cameras. And this is the one that I work on, ATLAS. You get some sense of the size -- you can just see these EU standard-size people underneath. (Laughter) You get some sense of the size: 44 meters wide, 22 meters in diameter, 7,000 tons. And we re-create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the universe began up to 600 million times a second inside that detector -- immense numbers. And if you see those metal bits there -- those are huge magnets that bend electrically charged particles, so it can measure how fast theyre traveling. This is a picture about a year ago. Those magnets are in there. And, again, a EU standard-size, real person, so you get some sense of the scale. And its in there that those mini-Big Bangs will be created, sometime in the summer this year. And actually, this morning, I got an email saying that weve just finished, today, building the last piece of ATLAS. So as of today, its finished. Id like to say that I planned that for TED, but I didnt. So its been completed as of today. (Applause) Yeah, its a wonderful achievement. So, you might be asking, Why? Why create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the universe began? Well, particle physicists are nothing if not ambitious. And the aim of particle physics is to understand what everythings made of, and how every