Re: Large Electron Positron Collider
From: PD (pdraper_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/17/05
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Date: 17 Jan 2005 08:49:31 -0800
Creighton Hogg wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2005, DavidBowman wrote:
>
> > >From the gusiness world record site.
> >
> > Does anyone know why in the world they dismantled this device?
That's
> > the dumbest idea since shutting down hubble.
> >
> > =[ d
> >
> > The world's largest scientific instrument (and arguably the world's
> > largest machine) is the Large Electron Positron Collider. It is a
> > circular tube 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) in diameter and 27 km (17 miles)
in
> > circumference. It is situated in a giant donut-shaped tunnel 100 m
(330
> > ft) below the area around the Swiss-French border in Geneva. The
> > machine began operating in 1989 and was officially closed down at 8
am
> > on November 2, 2000.
>
> It was closed so they could get underway building the Large Hadron
> Collider.
In the same tunnel, no less.
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