Started in 1954, the 7,000 scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) are focused on the innovations and discoveries of the future.
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00:00CERN is the biggest lab for fundamental research in physics in the world, and was created 70
00:21years ago, in 1954, just after World War II, bringing together all the nations in Europe
00:29to rebuild a bit physics landscape in Europe, and push the boundaries of knowledge in the
00:37area of fundamental physics, so it means what we look at is to understand the smallest bricks
00:44of nature, and how it impacts the way the universe is working.
00:59This is the largest particle collider in the world, and what we do is we accelerate protons,
01:05protons are small particles like electrons in some ways, but maybe people are more familiar
01:10with electrons, and we accelerate them at almost the speed of light to make collisions
01:17and create many big banks, and in doing so we generate new particles, and the most important
01:24discoveries in the last years was the discovery of the Higgs boson, that was really the missing
01:33piece, let's say, of the theories describing particles that make up everything in the universe.