Hasta La Gadget!

Astronomers and physicists have said for years that we only know and understand five percent of the universe–but that may soon change.

CERN research center head Rolf-Dieter Heuer (pictured) said that the Large Hadron Collider may soon unveil dark matter, which makes up 25 percent of the remainder; the remaining 70 percent is dark energy, which we also know little about, as Reuters reports.

“Our Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be the first machine to give us insight into the dark universe,” Heuer said in the article. “We are opening the door to New Physics, to a discovery period.”

What’s new now is that the LHC is on schedule to collide particles at 7 tera-electron volts (7 TeV) by the end of the month. That will be the highest energy level ever achieved by mankind. Each collision will produce “mini-Big Bangs” that will yield priceless data for scientists to analyze–and possibly the Higgs boson, the theoretical particle that gave mass to matter and enabled the formation of stars, planets, and life as we know it, the report said. (Image credit: CERN)