Incredible Photos of The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

by Scott Beale on August 3, 2008 · 3 comments

Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The Big Picture is currently featuring a gallery of incredible photos of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge particle accelerator with circumference of 17 miles being built on the border of France and Switzerland by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). LHC testing is scheduled to begin this month.

See Previously: The Big Picture, A News Photography Blog by Boston.com

photo by Maximilien Brice

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1 William August 3, 2008 at 8:22 pm

Better watch out; this thing is going to punch a hole in the shell that protects us from Satan's minions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0

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2 mikl-em August 3, 2008 at 10:05 pm

gorgeous pix. Note there's a bet up on longbets.org about the Collider and whether it'll destroy the Earth. A great excerpt from the Detailed Terms of the bet:

“Prediction is correct if Earth is, as a result of operation of the collider, annihilated, reduced to much smaller volume than previously, vaporized, broken into large pieces, converted into photons, neutrinos, or other radiation, converted into exotic matter, or just unable to support life.”

http://www.longbets.org/382

So we'll see how things go, I guess. :)

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3 robertmarshII August 4, 2008 at 3:55 am

An amazing pictorial overview! The public debate concerning CERN LHC, is a healthy social mechanism, if held in rational constraint.

http://thefifthknight.blogspot.com/

Remember: Follow the 'White Rabbit'!

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