What is the Largest Machine Ever Made

By Sara Bellum On April 4, 2014 In Sara Bellum No Comments

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Dear Sara –

What is the largest machine ever made?

– Sincerely, Fred T.

Dear Fred,

To date, the largest machine known to have been created by humankind (if any credible sources know about alien machines, they aren’t telling the rest of us) is the Large Hadron Collider. This was built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Lucerne, Switzerland. It utilized approximately 100,000 computers spread around the world, with 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries working on the project. The purpose of the Large Hadron Collider was to find the Higgs boson particle, also known as “the God particle,” a subatomic substance hypothesized to be the essential basis for everything in the universe. The particle’s existence was first proposed by scientist Peter Higgs (hence “Higgs boson”). A new documentary film, PARTICLE FEVER, examines the theories behind and use of the Large Hadron Collider.

-Sara Bellum

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Sara Bellum

Editor at Buzzy Multimedia Publishing

The name's Sara Bellum, and I'm the editor-at-large here at BuzzyMag - the hostess with the mostess, if you will. I like to think that my first calling is fighting crime and delivering a heaping dose of sweet, sweet justice to all manner of thugs, miscreants, hoodlums, ruffians, and ne'er-do-wells, but unfortunately, violent vigilantism doesn't exactly pay big bucks these days.

Times are tough, my friends, and I've got bills to pay, so I decided to put my encyclopedic knowledge of all things sci-fi & fantasy-related to use to help me land a day job. To tell you the truth, it's kind of a nice change of pace. My manicures have been lasting a bit longer lately.