A model of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel is seen in the CERN (European Organization For Nuclear Research) visitors' center on June 16, 2008 in Geneva-Meyrin, Switzerland. CERN is building the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC is being installed in a tunnel 27 km in circumference, buried 50 - 150 m below ground. It will provide collisions at the highest energies ever observed in laboratory conditions. Four huge detectors -ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCB- will observe the collisions so that the physicists can explore new territory in matter, energy, space and time.
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