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Published online 3 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.933
Column: Muse
Behind the mask of the LHC
The physics that the Large Hadron Collider will explore has tentative philosophical foundations. But that's a good thing, says Philip Ball.
Physicists, and indeed all scientists, should rejoice that the advent of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has become a significant cultural event. Dubbed the 'Big Bang machine', the new particle accelerator at CERN — the European centre for particle physics near Geneva — should answer some of the most profound questions in fundamental physics and may open up a new chapter in our exploration of why the world is the way it is.
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