print email comment close The Large Hadron Collider URL: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html Description: Background for the public about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), "a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles -- the fundamental building blocks of all things." Read about reasons for LHC, how it works, experiments, safety, facts and figures, and more. From CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Publisher: CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research LII Database Information: Record 26852 created by Jennifer English on 09/08/2008 Last modification on 09/08/2008 Published: 09/11/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26852