It has revolutionized physics, made Nobel Prize winners and given birth to the World Wide Web -- now its successor looks set to answer some of the natural world's most fundamental questions.
...Among the particles they hope will be scattered in the colossal explosions will be the sought-after Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, which according to the Standard Model of particle physics is responsible for generating mass.
Other questions the LHC may help answer include the nature of "dark matter," which scientists say makes up some 95 percent of the universe but which has not yet been detected.
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