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The goal of the scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider is to recreate what the universe was like just nanoseconds after it began.
The particle physics at the core of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be daunting for those who last reckoned with protons and neutrons in school, but the real-world aspects are much more straightforward, if staggering in their own way.
The project, 20 years in the making, has a price tag of $8bn ($4bn) and involved the work of 9,000 physicists. The massive machinery sits more than 300 feet underground, stretching in a 17-mile circle across the French-Swiss border.
On Sunday, in the season premiere of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, correspondent Steve Kroft goes underground to get a closer look at the Large Hadron Collider and the people who made it possible.
