Yesterday, Stephen Barr was kind enough to explain to us how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva could revolutionize the field of fundamental physics for the FT lay reader. While Barr’s article doesn’t go into what happens if we’re all sucked into black holes , or if the whole world will be destroyed , it certainly elucidated the more promising aspects of what the experiment could yield.
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