The Great Accelerator |
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| Author:
| Virilio, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7456-5388-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Polity Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $72.95 |
Book Description:
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On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles.
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles.