2008/09 Anna I. McPherson Lectures

The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and telescope

John Ellis, CERN - Public Lecture

100 years after Rutherford, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will take the world to a new level in its understanding of the structure of matter and the workings of the universe, by recreating collisions that took place between particles of matter when the universe was a trillionth of a second old. It will reveal why particles have mass, and may reveal the nature of the dark matter that fills the universe, perhaps even the origin of matter itself.