Mysteries of the Universe will be solved, starting next Wednesday

Tejinder Virdee

From The Times

Beneath the foothills of the Jura mountains, in a network of tunnels that bring to mind the lair of a crazed Bond villain, scientists will fire a first beam of particles around a ring as long as the Circle Line on the London Underground. This colossal circuit, 17 miles (27km) in circumference, is the world's most powerful atom-smasher, the £3.5 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC), created at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva...One of the first scientific discoveries is likely to concern a theory called supersymmetry. Tejinder Virdee [Physics], of Imperial College, London, who leads the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector team, said: 'What supersymmetry predicts is that, for every particle you have a partner, so it doubles up the spectrum. You have a whole new zoology of particles, if you like.

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