Hadron Collider

From Wired...

"On November 27, 2006, the final superconducting main magnet was delivered to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- the most ambitious physics experiment ever created.

Due to come online in November 2007, the LHC is the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. The giant underground loop of tunnels, magnets and detectors will be capable of replicating conditions just after the Big Bang, helping to answer questions about the nature of matter and the creation of the universe.

The ATLAS experiment, which when completed, will at 150 long and 82 feet high be the largest detector at the LHC. It will look for dark matter, the Higgs Boson, and unexpected new physics."