Take a look at some quick facts about the project:
- 20-year work-in-progress;
- A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations;
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground;
- Each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it;
- Temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core;
- Superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space.