How the Largest Machine in the World Looks Like

Explore the thrill of visiting the largest particle accelerator located 100 metres underground at CERN, Switzerland

Chetna Krishna, the Head of Social Media at CERN in front of the ATLAS detector

I clenched my phone tightly as I stood on the topmost floor of the biggest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

In truth, the LHC is so massive (roughly 27 kilometres in circumference), that it is divided into…