In an underground tunnel near Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research smashed together particles inside the $10 billion accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider, in an effort to learn more about the plasma that formed the universe a split- second after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Scientists say a tiny ball of matter exploded and then quickly formed a melted "soup" of matter, which then re-ordered itself into what is now the universe..........rest here
...from yahoo
This is rediculous most of it will be used to smash together protons in the hope that one of the four detectors found around the colliders 17mile tunnel under the Swiss-French border will find evidence of dark matter, antimatter and maybe even hidden dimensions of space and time.