in the tunnel (imagine how fit you can get if you work inside it)Well, maybe in short words: "it is the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.
The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions."
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France. It is a particle accelerator (I just love this name in Hungarian) used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionize our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe."
In other words, this very serious antimatter stuff is built right under our noses. The LHC accelerator is a ring 27 kilometers in circumference. It is installed in a tunnel about 100 m underground. You can see the round outline of it marked on a map of the area.
The circle shows the position on the map of the 27 km tunnel of the LHC!Right under us...Does this mean anything to us in case something goes wrong?
These are temperatures to be registered in this week around here. Does it have something to do with the fact that the LHC was turned on some few time ago? After 7 years living in Europe, I never experienced that warmth in November! Maybe it is just the old friend global warming...
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