Thirty-three year 9, 10 and 11 students and four members of staff from da Vinci Community School in Derby travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, recently where they went on a tour of the CERN Institute.
CERN is home to the world-famous Large Hadron Collider, a huge 27-kilometre underground circuit which scientists use to fire particles of matter at each other at extremely high speeds in order to study what happens when they collide.
The students found out how the collisions cause the particles to burst at an atomic level, giving scientists valuable information about how the Big Bang happened and about how the universe first took shape.
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