For thousands of years, humans have smashed things to see what they are made of. Manuel Olmedo, a graduate student at UC Riverside, explains how the Large Hadron Collider applies this simple concept to discover the fundamental constituents of matter.
Images:
Trees: © Dietmar Rabich/Wikimedia Commons
Camp fire: Mike Petrucci/Flicker
Lava: USGS
Animation: CERN
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