Education
‘Big Bang’ machine comes to Queen's
The world’s largest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the man behind the Higgs particle theory, came to Belfast as part of a week-long public exhibition hosted by Queen’s University.
Queen’s invited members of the public to walk through a full-size replica of a section of the LHC tunnel as well as having the chance to meet physicists involved in answering some of the biggest mysteries of the universe by re-creating conditions just after the Big Bang.
Visitors were able to get hands-on with a number of interactive exhibits collectively creating a feel for what it's like to be a particle physicist working on the world’s most powerful atom smasher.
