CERN
Go beneath the Alps to explore the biggest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider.
(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Explore the construction of the mother of all particle accelerators: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the international particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. In this video, physicist David Wark reports on the ambitious goals of this 16-mile-long circular racetrack. Designed to smash protons together at near-light speed, CERN promises astonishing new discoveries about matter.