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Qtv / ‘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.