Straddling the border of Switzerland and France is the largest scientific instrument ever created. 
It sits in a tunnel 27 kilometers or 17 miles long, at points, it rests 175 meters or 574 feet below the surface, and it cost a whopping €7.5 billion.
It consists of thousands of powerful magnets and a vacuum chamber and uses a great deal of energy. With it we can probe the secrets of the basic particles that make up the universe.
Learn more about the Large Hadron Collider, how it works, and why it was built on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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