CERN Collidatron — ‘It’s alive!’
p2pnet news view | Cool:- “It’s now two days since the cackling CERN scientists, bathed in the ominous glow of a Swiss full moon, flipped their contentious big switch and screamed ‘It’s alive!’,” posts Stevie Smith in the Tech Herald, going on
“Of course, the world is still turning and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) device has been successfully started.
“Yet, with a number of weeks still yet to pass before the CERN team ups the ante and begins slamming the LHC’s accelerated subatomic particles together, we thought we’d trawl the Net to bring you some photographic background and video-based explanation on history’s biggest ever scientific experiment.”
And trawl he did
On the right is a CERN break-down of the CERN Collidatron, as we like to call it, and below is a video.
Head over to the site for more. (Good stuff, Stevie.)
Tech Herald – The Big Bang Experiment: In Photos and Videos, September 12, 2008
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