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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is Quite Beautifully Designed (Aesthetically)
| September 11, 2008


The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator spanning across the border of Switzerland and France.


LHC - Official site
Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia entry
LHC commissioning with beam CERN's website for commissioning the LHC
Let the Proton Smashing Begin - NYTimes.com 7/29
LHC - NYTimes Topics page


There's been a lot of "end of the word/armageddon/wasteful resources" commotion going on, but it's still a thing of scientific beauty when some of the world's brightest minds can come together and spend billions  on progress and the search for truth.











All images are (© CERN)


Link:  The Big Picture on Boston.com

Tags:  black hole, dark matter, lhc, science

Topic: Sustainable Design

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Niall O'Leary
on September 11, 2008

Amazing pictures! One of our photographers has completed a project on Cern-you can view it here;

http://www.milim.com/work.php?&id=87

 

Deco Monster
on September 13, 2008

quite possibly the finest example of brains and beauty can be taken from these pictures.

we've been nerding out about this for a while now.

 

Brian Slawson
on September 13, 2008

And physics geeks shouldn't miss the LHC Rap... Youtube Video

 

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