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How Do You Shut Down The 2nd Most Powerful Particle Accelerator?

4:30AM October 2, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The Tevatron shut down yesterday. Before its duties were taken up by the the Large Hadron Collider, it accelerated highly charged particles through 6.4km of electromagnetic coil and vacuum tubes to discover the secrets of the universe. How do you turn a beast like that off? More »

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Large Hadron Collider “Light” Will Half-End World In November

12:30AM August 10, 2009 | Jack Loftus

While we doubt the loud sex is the real reason for CERN’s LHC-related woes, we are certain of one thing this morning: The “world-ending” LHC (citation: ill-informed ignoramuses) LHC will restart at half-strength in November. More »