Scientists plan to recreate 'Big Bang' to uncover universe's mysteries

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2006

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ecuador (AFP) — International scientists will recreate the immediate aftermath of the "Big Bang" in a bid to uncover the mysteries of the universe, a world physics summit announced.

The laboratory experiment will take place in Europe next year with the collaboration of US, Japanese and Russian scientists to increase scientific knowledge of dark energy and matter, said summit organizer Carlos Montufar, of Ecuador's San Francisco University.

"The idea is to generate a clash between particles similar to what happened a thousandth of a second after the Big Bang and see what it could tell us about the standard model of matter," Montufar told AFP.

So far, the model only offers an understanding of four percent of the universe's dark energy and...