A few fun facts about the LHC Big Bang Machine
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Large Hadron Collider is today's buzz phrase, so we've decided to give you a few extra special facts about the supposed "Big Bang Machine"...
> The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest machine ever created.
> The 27km long circular tunnel at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is buried between Lake Geneva and the Jura mountain range
> When the circular tunnel was excavated, the two ends met up with just one centimetre of error.
> The tunnel has its own fire brigade.
> Protons will travel through the LHC accelerator ring at 99.999 per cent of the speed of light.
> Six hundred million collisions will take place every second as the protons smash into each other.
> Collisions will generate temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than the sun.
> Each proton moves at a speed equivalent of a family car travelling at 1,056 miles per hour.
> Cable used to power the accelerator would stretch round the equator 6.8 times.
> Data recorded in each of LHC's big experiments would fill 100,000 DVDs.
> CERN estimates that just one per cent of data recorded will be useful.
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