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Radio 4,10 Sep 2008,30 mins

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Comedian and physicist Ben Miller explores the workings of the new LHC atom smasher at CERN in Switzerland and what it is designed to discover. He looks at the Higgs Particle and how it enables atoms, molecules and our entire world to exist.

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