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The Big Bang Machine

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Last broadcast on Fri, 2 Jan 2009, 20:00 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed off and a simulation experiment begins to try and create the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Cox joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries.

CLIP: THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER IN GENEVA

Professor Brian Cox visits the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, designed to recreate the conditions that existed immediately after The Big Bang.

CERN

Find out more about the LHC at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) website.

The LHC Homepage

BBC Radio 4

Credits

Presenter
Brian Cox

Broadcasts

  1. Thu 4 Sep 2008
    21:00
  2. Sat 6 Sep 2008
    20:30
  3. Sun 7 Sep 2008
    02:50
  4. Fri 2 Jan 2009
    20:00

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Duration

60 minutes

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