Troels Petersen

Facing technical challenges enables spectacular discoveries, such as the one of the Higgs particle, which fundamentally moves our understanding of the Universe we inhabit.

Moving at the Speed of Light

At CERN’s giant LHC accelerator, protons move at almost the speed of light. The protons are brought to collide in an attempt to convert the energy in their movement into new particles and phenomena. In this way we can explore the fundamental building blocks of our Universe.

However, challenging the riddles of the Universe is a tough task, and there are many technical difficulties to overcome in the process. One of them is the thousands of TeraBytes of data to be analyzed.

But once again, the answer lies in movement. By distributing the data from CERN to a vast network of computers all around the world, the data is processed in record time.

Facing these technical challenges enables spectacular discoveries, such as the one of the Higgs particle, which fundamentally moves our understanding of the Universe we inhabit.

And seeing these combined efforts repaid by insight into the working of our Universe is an everlasting triumph of mankind, and – moving.

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