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The Large Hadron Collider is reset and refreshed every year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

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When you press “start” on your microwave or computer, the appliance turns on immediately—but large physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, don’t work that way. Instead, engineers and physicists must take a few weeks each year to carefully reset the collider and all … Read more

The Large Hadron Collider is reset and refreshed every year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

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When you press “start” on your microwave or computer, the appliance turns on immediately—but large physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, don’t work that way. Instead, engineers and physicists must take a few weeks each year to carefully reset the collider and all … Read more