The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest and highest-energy particle accelerator anywhere on the planet. It's purpose is to collide two counter rotating beams of protons or heavy ions to recreate the conditions just after the theorized Big Bang.
By doing so, physicists hope to gain a better understanding of all sorts of geeky topics, like quantum mechanics, general relativity, the structure of space and time, and other things that would make your head spin. So naturally, the one question that comes to everyone's mind is.. what would happen if you stuck your hand in front of the beam?
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