Saturday, April 4, 2015

Beam On!

The Large Hadron Collider will be turned on again this weekend.

The thing has a diameter of 5.41 miles.

The first cyclotron (built just over 80 years ago) by comparison, had a diameter of 27 inches and used a very large magnet that was surplus from the First World War (and was found in a junkyard).


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