Large Hadron Collider:: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your MindSince 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17 mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call ""the LHC"") is one of the wonders of the modern world'a highly sophisticated scientific instrument designed to re create in miniature the conditions of the universe as they existed in the microseconds following the big bang. Among many notable LHC discoveries, one