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The acronym CERN stands for a European body dedicated to nuclear physics, specifically the "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire". Although CERN is the most used term, officially this body receives another name: "European Organization for the Investigation Nuclear".

Its facilities are very close to the Swiss city of Geneva, located a few kilometers from France.

In this center, since 1954 the Energy subatomic, especially neutral currents, the W and Z bosons, antimatter and the famous Higgs boson.

CERN's LHC Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine ever built

Theoretical and experimental physicists working with this machine try to understand the complexity of subatomic particles. According to those responsible for CERN, the purpose of the collider is not military or commercial, but to better understand the fundamental laws of physics.

In other words, it is intended to know how the universe works as a whole and to give a satisfactory answer to some enigmas of science (for example, it is not known why the

force gravity is weaker than other forces of nature).

The researchers integrated in this organism believe that the future of science is directly related to the results that the large hadron collider LHC can provide.

One of CERN's projects is associated with the mythical Higgs boson, a particle that was detected by the large hadron collider and is popularly known as "the particle of God"

Is molecule it permeates everything that exists in the universe and is what gives meaning to matter. Thus, we know gravity as the basic force of the universe, we know the strong nuclear force that holds together the nucleus of the atoms and the weak nuclear force related to radioactivity, as well as the force explained in the principles of electromagnetism.

However, CERN scientists believe that the understanding The definitive Higgs boson could explain what matter is made of and how the different forces of nature interact. It is believed that a definitive understanding of the Higgs boson would provide a genuine revolution as important as Einstein's theory of relativity was in its day.

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The building of this hadron giant had a cost of three billion euros. More than 10,000 people of more than 100 different nationalities work at CERN's facilities.

To activate it, seven-ton superconducting magnets are used that must be cooled with liquid helium to the lowest possible temperatures. In the world there are more than 100,000 computers connected to process data related to the team.

In July 2012, CERN scientists were able to identify the Higgs boson and this finding is considered one of the great milestones of science in recent years.

Some scientists believe that CERN conducts research that could be dangerous to humanity. In this sense, it is said that scientists try to discover parallel worlds in the universe and even that they could look for the alteration of time as we know it. It has been stated that certain experiments could lead to the disintegration of the matter of the universe.

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