Created by atoms crashing together. this is just one of the best positions, because really, it shows you all the majesty of this detector, isn t it? it s huge! majesty is the word. this is the detector that was responsible for one of the most important breakthroughs in science, the discovery of the higgs boson. it s just been upgraded and the hope is it will discover more particles that are completely new to science. and if it does, it could transform our understanding of the universe. we are looking actively for a lot of new phenomena. dark matter, for example. we can look directly, for that matter. for dark matter. could this be one of the biggest discoveries ever in physics? i d say yes. i d say it might be. yes, indeed. it s the majority of the universe that is made of this dark matter, and we have at the moment
Long does it take before you get to the point where you say, now we are getting new now we are getting data, now we are getting ideas? it is a now we are getting ideas? it is a hue now we are getting ideas? it is a huge machine. now we are getting ideas? it is a huge machine, 27 now we are getting ideas? it is a huge machine, 27 kilometres i now we are getting ideas? it is a i huge machine, 27 kilometres long. it is filled with large devices. will it to perform where we want it to be takes a few months. today i switch on day but it will take a few moments, and tell aboutjuly, until we actually get the physics data we are looking for. it exists all that time to check it out, stage by stage everything is in the right place and everything is in the right place and everything is in the right place and everything is safe. first everything is in the right place and everything is safe. everything is safe. first it will be like an engineering everything is safe. first it will be like an
It is what i mean. the end of april. still feels too soon to get the garden furniture out. lovely. the world s most powerful particle accelerator the large hadron collider will re open after three years of being shut down for improvements. do you remember how excited i was about that? you were, yes. scientists around the globe are hoping the upgraded machine will be able to detect new particles and start a physics revolution that could forever change our understanding of the universe. our science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. it s like a medieval castle. you have to have, like, winding roads to get there. deep underground, dr marcelo bono shows me into the heart of the large hadron collider. so this is the first time i ll have seen the detector. and, wow, itjust looks incredible. 7,000 tons of intricate engineering, built to detect minute particles