CERN's Large Hadron Collider: A Journey into the Quest for Alternate Dimensions
(Particle accelerator at CERN. Photo courtesy of Dreamstime.) Tucked away beneath the verdant landscapes of the France-Switzerland border lies one of the most impressive and complex pieces of machinery ever built by humankind – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the primary function of the LHC is to accelerate particles, typically protons,