- Name
- Large Hadron Collider
- Aliases
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator. Its purpose is to collide opposing particle beams and it was built by European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The Large Hadron Collider lies in a tunnel that reaches 17 (27 kilometers) miles in circumference. It's located 570 feet (175 meters) below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland (Location). On September 10, 2008, the protons beams successfully made it all the way around the main ring for the first time. However, 9 days later, a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets forced the operations to halt. They are expected to continue in November of 2009.
Appearances in games
- In Scribblenauts (Game) the LHC is one of the thousands objects that can be summoned, when the player interacts with it it explodes and creates a black hole killing the player.
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