475K views · 8.3K reactions | The Large Hadron Collider is one of the largest machines in the world. Its purpose is to fire subatomic particles at each other so we can better see how they function. Find out more about this massive machines in Colossal Machines, on Thursdays at 8pm, on National Geographic UK. | National Geographic UK | Facebook

The intensity rises in the Large Hadron Collider. More and more protons are circulating, pushing up the collision rate in the experiments to record highs. Read more: http://cern.ch/go/j9mp Video credit ©CERN/Daniel Dominguez/Arzur Catel-Torres - for terms of use see http://copyright.web.cern.ch/ | CERN

26K views · 303 reactions | CERN is upgrading the Large Hadron Collider to make even more amazing discoveries. | Interesting Engineering | Facebook