The second in a series of films following a team of physicists involved in research at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland. Visit the project website at collidingparticles.com and join our Vimeo group: vimeo.com/groups/collidingparticles

At 10.28am on 10 September 2008 the first beam of protons was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.  Episode 2 introduces us to life at CERN and the excitement surrounding 'Big Bang Day'.

For an explanation of who Adam is and what he's working on, you might want to watch Episode 1.