What does the search for the God particle at CERN look like? CGI imagery came up with the above.

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Every second, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces 40 million particle collisions – far more data than any computer on Earth could ever store or analyse. So CERN scientists are letting AI make split-second decisions, in real time, about which of those collisions might contain the next big discovery. It’s one of many ways in which AI could transform particle physics work.

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