The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) rises to the opportunity. By smashing protons together with unprecedented energy, monitoring the many particles that emerge from the collisions, and reconstructing the primary events that produced them, physicists will in effect have constructed the fastest, highest-resolution microscope ever, with each proton taking a snapshot of the other’s interior.
大型强子对撞机（ LHC ）应运而生。这种设备令质子以极大能量对撞，通过观测那些由对撞产生的粒子，重构这些物质的产生过程，物理学家必将发明出有史以来速度最快、解析度最高的显微镜 —— 在这个显微镜里，每个质子都成为反映另一个质子内部结构的影像。