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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. It lies in a tunnel under France and Switzerland.
It is currently in the final stages of construction, and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of ~2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
It is currently in the final stages of construction, and commissioning, with some sections already being cooled down to their final operating temperature of ~2K. The first beams are due for injection mid June 2008 with the first collisions planned to take place 2 months later. The LHC will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC is being funded and built in collaboration with over two thousand physicists from thirty-four countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
Apr 23, 2008 4:18 AM
Re: NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
cool!!!! as long as they dont open a black hole that sucks up our universe..
or as they seek some elusive form of matter, they open a hole in the fabric of space time which aliens search for to show that a civilization has reached a critical point in their technology that can threaten all the universe's..
oh heck..never mind.
or as they seek some elusive form of matter, they open a hole in the fabric of space time which aliens search for to show that a civilization has reached a critical point in their technology that can threaten all the universe's..
oh heck..never mind.
By: wildancrazy159
Re: NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
Or forget to turn it off when they leave the lab at night and it gets hot and catches the drapes on fire.
By: ice-9
Re: NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
Oh great, just wait until dad gets the power bill at the end of the month.
It would be funny to watch the lights dim just a little on the dark side of the Earth when they fire that sucker up...
It would be funny to watch the lights dim just a little on the dark side of the Earth when they fire that sucker up...
By: luclonde
