Scientists Activate Particle Collider

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Scientists Activate Particle ColliderThere is a really good video explaining exactly how this works in the article as well as an interactive media piece.CERN accelerator complex

"After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside Geneva, succeeded in turning on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating the elemental particles and forces of nature."

(credit: NYTimes Science)
and just for fun...(credit: xkcd)