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‘Big Bang’ machine passes 1st test

questions

1. What are ‘all around’? beaming smiles
2. What is on the screen? a blip
3. How has the experiment been described? "the most ambitious scientific project ever undertaken"
4. How long has it taken to achieve? 20 years
5. What will the project recreate? conditions after the big bang at the dawn of creation
6. How fast will the beams of proton particles travel? close to the speed of light
7. What will the 4 detectors do? scour the debris for traces of new particles
8. What might these reveal? the origins of the universe
9. How much of the universe remains a complete mystery? 96%
10. What 2 things dominate our universe? dark matter and dark energy
11. When will the first collisions take place? in some weeks
12. What kind of physics are they going to produce? new physics and ‘bread and butter’ physics