Big Bang Redux?

Ever thought the scientific methods and reasoning behind the Big Bang theory should be something we know more about?

Today is being toted as a milestone for mankind and science as the first collision test, a successful run of a massive particle collider, took place just outside of Geneva.

Scientists first utilised the LHC – Large Hadron Collider, a 26 kilometre underground loop, and shot a particle beam around it – which for the first time completed the entire loop. Why is this significant in the Big Bang theory? It means the scientific world is verging on the chance to shoot two accelerated beam particles towards each other at 99.9% of the speed of light.

The smashing of the two particles will create hundred and thousands of new particles – and effectively replicate the effects of the Big Bang by recreating the much-theorised conditions of the universe after its formation.

Scientists believe that the Big Bang took place some 13 billion years ago, and happened with a dense object which could be as small as a coin, which created the planets and stars (and life as we commonly accept it).