August 2019: A tunnel to the beginning of time

Meirin Oan Evans works at University of Sussex and on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN.

As astronomy enthusiasts, you may have heard of ways to study the Big Bang using telescopes and space satellites. But is there any other way? CERN, the biggest science laboratory in the world, is trying to do just that. 100m underground at CERN, there’s a 27km round tunnel called the Large Hadron Collider, where we’re trying to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang here on Earth. This will allow us to tackle really big questions such as: What are the building blocks of matter? What are the forces between them? What happened to antimatter? What’s dark matter? What was the early universe like and how did it evolve? What about gravity? Is there anything else we haven’t thought of…?

Arrive from 7pm for a 7:30pm start.