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

What, exactly, does the Large Hadron Collider do? This video will break it down for you in just over a minute. | CBC News

See how we smash protons inside the Large Hadron Collider at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN! Protons collide to create two muons (shown in long blue tracks) and two electrons (shown in short blue tracks). The emerging green clusters represent the energy in the ATLAS calorimeters, which lie outside the inner tracking detector. This is the same signature that a #Higgsboson – decaying into two muons and two electrons – would leave in the detector. Could we be seeing a Higgs boson in this video right