The CERN season and latest news
Latest update on the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider was halted in late September 2008 because of a helium leak, BBC News report. The problem has delayed operations in 2009 but it is hoped the LHC will be switched back on in mid November 2009, BBC News report..
Reprts from the CERN Control Room
An illuminating commentary by BBC journalists as the events unfolded on launch day ...
Time: 1730pm (BST) FROM Andrew Caspari, Radio 4, in central control room
The CERN bosses took a big risk when they agreed to launch the first beam in the full glare of publicity and it has paid off. One was honest enough to say it didn't feel such a smart idea when the cooling was not working so well. Fortune favours the brave though and all who have been enthralled today will watch this project with interest in the weeks , months and indeed years to come ...
Physics Rocks
Is particle physics the new rock n’ roll? The extraordinary questions that particle physics hopes to answer has attracted some very high profile fans. Also Alexandra Feachem, the series producer, gives a unique insight into the making of the series.
The end of the world is not nigh
The verdict of an exhaustive safety assessment is that world is not going to end when scientists switch on the Large Hadron Collider. Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith says there have long been high energy particles flooding in from the cosmos - and if they were dangerous they would have killed us a long time ago.
Radio 4 on particle physics
Listen again to a range of programmes produced by Radio 4's Frontiers and Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time including the Big Bang, the Higgs Boson 'God particle' and Dark Matter and theories of everything.
Help scientists build the LHC
LHC@Home is a screensaver program that you can download which uses your computer's idle time to simulate particle travelling in the LHC.(The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)