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Quick Facts
- Accelerates beams of protons at over 99.9999991% of the speed of light.
- The first successful circulation of proton beams on 10 September 2008.
- Collaboration of over 10,000 scientists and engineers.
- Critics claim small black holes created by the LHC could destroy Earth.
- The LHC was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008.
Expert summary
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It is comprised of a circular tunnel with a circumference of 27 kilometres (17 miles) at a depth ranging from 50-175 metres underground the Franco-Swiss border. The LHC is a project of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The goal is to test various hypotheses concerning high-energy physics. The LHC has six detectors: two of them (ATLAS and CMS) are large general purpose particle detectors, two more specialized detectors (ALICE and LHCb) will study elements of the Big Bang, while the final two (TOTEM and LHCf) are for very specialized research.
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LHC Website
This is the LHC's homepage at CERN. This page has lots of valuable technical information about the accelerator, however it is not user friendly. -
CERN's website.
This is the European Organization for Nuclear Research's website which discusses the LHC. -
LHC Homepage
This is the more user friendly Large Hadron Collider homepage. It has news information about the experiments and also has interesting videos of Nobel laureates talking about the LHC.
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LHC Information
This is a basic informational video about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from a critical perspective. Worth checking out at least once. -
CERNTV's introduction to the LHC
CERNTVs introduction to the Large Hadron Collider. Shows why this is the largest, most powerful and most exciting particle accelerator ever created. -
LHC Black Holes
This is an anti-LHC video which attempts to criticize the assumption that any microscopic black holes created by the collider would disappear.
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Large Particle Detector
One of the LHC's large particle detectors. Notice its large size in comparison with the other objects in the shot. -
LHC Tunnel
A very interesting shot of the 17 mile tunnel which houses the large blue tube which is used to accelerate the particles. -
LHC Artistic Image
Interesting artistic image of the Large Hadron Collider. It combines images of both the collider and its location on the Franco-Swiss border.
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Hadron Collider Physics 2005
This is a collection of the proceedings from the 1st Hadron Collider Physics Symposium. The goal is to share experience between the Tevatron community and CERN's Large Hadron Collider community. -
Author Don Lincoln
To be released in 2009 this should prove to be an interesting book on the Large Hadron Collider. Author Don Lincoln previously wrote Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to Cosmos. -
LHC Science Fiction
Cheap and entertaining paperback science fiction novel about the unwitting effects of an LHC experiment which transports the world's consciousness 20 years into the future.
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