The quest to understand the mysteries of the universe took another step forward today as the final pieces of the so-called “Big Bang Machine” were lowered into place at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. With the installation of two 100-tonne “small wheels” that are the last components of the muon spectrometer, the ATLAS detector is now virtually complete – much to the excitement of a University of Regina scientist who has been involved with the project for the better part of a decade.