QUIRKY WORLD ... Hadron rivals Handel in making sweet music

Switzerland: It was built to help uncover the building blocks of our universe — but scientists have found that Cern’s Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator can write beautiful music too.

Data from the giant physics experiment, buried beneath the Swiss-French border, has been “sonified” by converting the peaks and troughs of particle research into musical notes.

“Through a process called sonification, we are able to make music from scientific data and experience that data in new and beautiful ways,” said Genevieve Williams of Anglia Ruskin University.