MY Visit to CERN !

I visited CERN this weekend (July 22nd) ....

CERN - The world's largest particle physics laboratory ... where the web was born!


Read more about CERN on their website - http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

CERN's Flagship Project: the LHC - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. The RING for this experiment has a 27 KM circumference extending across Switzerland and France ... Running 100 metres under the ground ... (You will find some pictures with a large circle indicated on a map)

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html

Also, in the album, you will find some pictures of a Globe ...

Details here - http://globe.web.cern.ch/globe/

It had been a long time since I saw something so massively scientific :-)

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