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The Big Bang Machine

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed off and a simulation experiment begins to try and create the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Cox joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Cox
Executive Producer:
Andrew Cohen

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