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Radio 4,17 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 dark matter, the invisible material that fills the universe but whose exact nature remains a mystery.

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