Huge hole to hunt cosmic secrets
Posted by Garry Denke on Jun 16, 2003 at 10:56
(12.237.89.80)Re: Hole in ground, to Probe Cosmic Secrets (Mike Kremer)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2978892.stm
A huge cavern - large enough to house a cathedral - has been dug out beneath the Franco-Swiss border to hold the largest single scientific instrument ever built.
Big enough to house a cathedral... The Atlas detection equipment will be five stories tall and weigh 7,000 tonnes. Its task is to search for a crucial sub-atomic particle called the Higgs boson, the particle that gives mass to all other particles.
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