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ATLAS occupies just one small corner of the strange and wonderful world that is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the circular, 14-mile-underground particle accelerator that promises scientists untold insights into the mysteries of the cosmos. More than 25 years in the planning, with a price tag of about $10 billion, the LHC officially - finally - began smashing protons together on March 30. The goal: to answer the most fundamental questions about how the universe works. (See pictures...
...pictures of the Large Hadron Collider...
Physics professor Melissa Franklin—another SPU 20 professor, who had to miss the exhibit because she is in Geneva working on the Large Hadron Collider—first suggested giving students the option of creating an original project rather than writing a final paper...