Big Bang Experiment Begins

(10 Sept 08 - RV) Scientists in Geneva today started up a huge particle-smashing machine aimed at re-enacting the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest and most complex machine ever made and the platform for what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in human history.

Today was the first attempt to circulate a particle beam around the 27km of the LHC.

The collider is operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – better known at CERN.

The Revrd Dr David Wilkinson is an astrophysicist and is a Christian Theologian at Durham Unversity in the UK.