Large Hadron Collider, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator , also creates one of the coolest place in the universe, just 1.9 K (-271C; -456F) to make superconducting magnets work. Situated beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, the accelerator is 27 kms in circumference and 100 m underground. The experiment, to be conducted over 20 years, will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe. The proton beams were circulated on 10th September, 2008 for the first time, but were halted on 19th September 2008 due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. As per a CERN press release, the LHC is expected to be restarted at the end of September 2009.
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