Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern's Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed-off and the experiment to create the simulation of a black hole begins.
When it's up and running, it will be capable of creating the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. Brian joins the scientists who hope that the LHC will change our understanding of the early universe and solve some of its mysteries.- Broadcast on:
- BBC Four, 9:00pm Thursday 4th September
- Duration:
- 60 minutes
- Available until:
- 9:59pm Thursday 11th September
Simon Singh examines the significance of subatomic particles.
British physicist JJ Thompson's experiments with electric currents showed that atoms are divisible into elementary particles. But how has the power of electrons been harnessed for everyday use?
- Broadcast on:
- BBC Radio 4, 3:45pm Monday 8th September
- Duration:
- 15 minutes
- Available until:
- 4:02pm Monday 15th September
