The Large Hadron Collider: Revealing Secrets of the Universe
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Keith Baker, professor of physics, talks about the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, near Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS experiment will look for exotic forms of matter, including dark matter, that have never before been detected.
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