The Large Hadron Collider is one of the largest machines in the world. Its purpose is to fire subatomic particles at each other so we can better see how they function. Find out more about this massive machines in Colossal Machines, on Thursdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK

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26K views · 1K reactions | Exactly 12 years ago to the hour, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN beat the energy record with the first 7 TeV proton–proton collisions. As we get ready for #restartingLHC for #LHCRun3, where proton–proton collisions will reach an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, we look back to the beginning of Run 1 and this achievement of CERN scientists.  Find out more about the #LHC: home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider | CERN | Facebook

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