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How I felt when I stepped inside the Hadron Collider

An exhibition at the Science Museum makes you feel like a particle in those tubes at Cern that are changing our understanding of life, the universe and everything

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

I have a new party piece. I can explain, with a degree of clarity and precision, how the Hadron Collider at Cern works and what it is looking for. I can’t claim credit for this feat of exposition myself; as any science teacher who had the misfortune to encounter me at school would testify.

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