Today is the day that the Large Haydron Collider at CERN was switched on. The world hasn't ended as so many people predicted, and as far as I know Geneva still exists. The purpose of the collider is to smash tiny particles together with a tremendous amount of energy, these interactions will form other particles that don't naturally occur and even create tiny black holes. It is thought these experiments will help us understand what exactly was going on during the "big bang".
A lot of people have been scaremongering and saying that it would cause the end of the world, not today however, because today was only a test at low energy and it wont be used at maximum energy for at least 1-2 months, maybe we'll all die then.
The reason I am talking about this structure is because of the sheer size of the structure they created. It spans two countries (Switzerland and France) and has a circumference of 27km. Architecturally its nothing special to look at just a giant ring on the surface of the earth but it is still a major feat of engineering and has to be seen as one of the great pieces od 20th century architecture.
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