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Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider with Lisa Randall of Harvard and Kyle Cranmer of NYU
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to watch the interview about this thing, and if you understand what they are talking about, please help a layman understand
The tunnel inside the collider.
After two years of delays, the Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running — and hasn't yet destroyed the universe. The 17-mile particle accelerator, based in Geneva, Switzerland, has begun smashing together subatomic particles at near-lightspeed velocities in the search for the "Higgs Boson," an elusive piece of matter also known as the "God particle." But what else will this colossal $9 billion machine do?
^click
to watch the interview about this thing, and if you understand what they are talking about, please help a layman understand
The tunnel inside the collider.
After two years of delays, the Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running — and hasn't yet destroyed the universe. The 17-mile particle accelerator, based in Geneva, Switzerland, has begun smashing together subatomic particles at near-lightspeed velocities in the search for the "Higgs Boson," an elusive piece of matter also known as the "God particle." But what else will this colossal $9 billion machine do?
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