the big bang test =or how i learned to love fast protons

The collider will send protons in opposite directions along a 27km circuit - the protons will travel the 27km 11,000 times per second - and at four points the protons will intersect and smash together.

Scientists will monitor the collisions and collect data on the particles created by these collisions, which they say will come close to re-enacting the "big bang" - the theory that a colossal explosion created the universe.
Big Bang doesn't explain the beginning of everything. because the question remains, who or what made the Big Bang happen?

clipped from english.aljazeera.net Scientists in Switzerland have started up a machine designed to accelerate sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light and then smash them into each other in a bid to find out how the universe began. The project hopes to observe a paricle known as a Higgs Boson, or a 'God particle' Large Hadron Collider, housed in a tunnel 100 metres below ground straddling the French-Swiss border, has cost more than $5.4bn and has been almost two decades in the making The phrase "big bang" was coined in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, a British scientist. Hoyle was trying to disparage the then emerging theory, which countered his own "steady state" view - that the universe had always existed and was evolving but was not expanding. The big-bang theory suggests the universe began as a speck at extremely high temperature and density and rapidly expanded and in doing so cooled. scientists hope will explain how particles pick up mass