A large dipole magnet is lowered into the tunnel in Geneva, marking the end of a crucial phase of installation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The machine will recreate the conditions of the big bang. (Photo courtesy of CERN/AFP/Getty Images)
Brian Cox, the rock star physicist
He's gone from concert halls to the laboratory, and now British physicist Brian Cox is working on the world's largest particle collider, a machine that will recreate the conditions of the big bang. He joins Midmorning to discuss what he says is a huge leap for science.
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Brian Cox: Royal Society University Research Fellow in the school of physics and astronomy at the University of Manchester. He also works on the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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