The questions about our universe — how it evolved, what governs it today, and where is it going — have been asked for a while. A small step in answering those questions has been the construction the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Here’s a great explanation of the LHC is and how it works.

That’s so totally awesome.

And here’s a small picture of our little corner of the universe — the Milky Way.

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Here’s another video on the LHC from May 2007 — before it went online in Sept 2008. The background music is by Philip Glass from the movie “Koyaanisqatsi.”