Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider ^18.7%

Popular Science - By Andrew Paul - 7/5/2026, 1:03 PM

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It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of the universe. Since its debut in 2008, the 16.7-mile-wide subatomic smasher buried underneath Switzerland proved the existence of the Higgs boson particle (aka the God particle), highlighted the perplexing nature of muons,... more