Huge hole to hunt cosmic secrets

Posted by
Garry Denke on Jun 16, 2003 at 10:56
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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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