The Big Picture

The main cause behind this entire project is to understand the universe better.

Scientists want to know what particles were like a billionth of a second after The Big Bang

Scientists want to know what mass is exactly at the subatomic level.

1973: The discovery of neutral currents

1983: The discovery of W and Z bosons

1989: The determination of the number of light neutrino families

1995: The first creation of antihydrogen atoms

1999: The discovery of direct CP violation

2010: The isolation of 38 atoms of antihydrogen

2011: Maintaining antihydrogen for over 15 minutes

2012: A boson with mass around 125 GeV/c2 consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson.

Also, the World Wide Web was invented so that data could be shared throughout Europe.

Thousands of determined people putting their heads together will always end up with technical advances that change the world forever

It seems crazy to spend 9 billion dollars to watch invisible things hit each other but I always remember times like when the Italians were experimenting with radio waves and people thought they were wasting their time. Or how the space race revolutionized computers.

It is inevitable another world changing breakthrough is to come!

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