Big switch on: just the beginning
Pete Wilton | 10 Sep 08
Just a quick post to congratulate all those Oxford scientists involved in the switch on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today.
Media interest has, as expected, been huge. But of course the switch on is just the beginning of the story.
Over the coming months (and years!) Oxford scientists such as Alan Barr and Tony Weidberg, involved in the ATLAS experiment, will get down to business. They'll use the huge particle smasher to investigate dark matter and search for 'missing pieces' of the physics jigsaw.
Will they find the elusive Higgs boson, a particle our models of the universe predict is there but no one's detected? Will they uncover new hidden dimensions?
They have the finest scientific instrument money can buy, now it's a case of setting it to work on some of the most fundamental questions about our universe.
Find out more by watching Alan Barr's video diaries about the LHC.
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