Origin of the Mass

在地下一百米处，在法国和瑞士的边界下，科学家们正准备回到过去，研究宇宙开始后的最初几分之一秒内的物质。他们正在建造世界上最大的科学仪器，以帮助揭示这种原始物质是如何发展成为形成今天巨大多样性的基石的。澳大利亚物理学家正准备从数十亿次质子碰撞的碎片中提取少数几个基本粒子，以解释质量的来源。在解决当前粒子物理面临的重大问题的同时，我们将培养学生在科学、医学、工业和金融等多个领域应用技能。

A hundred metres below ground, under the French-Swiss border, scientists are preparing to travel back in time to study matter as it was in the first fractions of a second after the beginning of the Universe. They are building the world's largest scientific instrument to help reveal how this primordial matter developed into the building blocks that form the great diversity of today. Australian physicists are preparing to extract the few fundamental particles that will explain the origin of the mass from the debris of billions of proton collisions. While solving the major issue confronting particle physics today, we will train students who will subsequently apply their skills in fields as diverse as science, medicine, industry and finance.