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Scientists at the world's largest |
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particle accelerator have successfully collided |
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beams of protons at the highest energy levels ever seen. |
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There was cheering in the control room at CERN, |
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the European nuclear research center in Switzerland |
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as one of the biggest and most complicated |
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scientific experiments got fully underway. |
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The experiment is seen as a major breakthrough |
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in efforts to understand |
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the fundamental nature of the universe. |
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Doctor Martin White is a research fellow at CERN. |
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"One of the great mysteries |
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of the universe is that most of the mass |
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in the universe is some kind of dark matter. |
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It's some kind of particle |
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that doesn't match anything we've seen before. |
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And if you look into space, |
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you can see this |
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because you can see its gravitational pull. |
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So wonder thing is that we hope to get, |
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recent and earlier, |
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an effective scene in the next two years |
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of some idea of what this dark matter is." |