BBC has an excellent intro to the LHC

[Neroon]

Link

Click on the button and wait for it to finish loading the intro. Once completed, I encourage you to take a stroll through the page and its associated links. You get some nice animation in various parts of the complex, and sweet little interactive panoramic view of the CMS (device searching for the Higgs-Boson), and more. A well done tutorial through which even I can understand a bit more about this behemoth.

How incredible would it be to meet the minds who conceived then engineered this?

 

[trekkiedane]

Speaking of that big machine…

Here: http://ab-dep-op.web.cern.ch/ab-dep-op/vistar.php?usr=LHC

Is the live view of what's going on in the LHC…

Not that I have any idea what is going on though.

Might be a more interesting page once they start putting the beams on collision course.