Sunday, 20. July 2008

Cern lab goes 'colder than space'


A vast physics experiment built in a tunnel below the French-Swiss border is fast becoming one of the coolest places in the Universe.

The Large Hadron Collider is entering the final stages of being lowered to a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin (-271C; -456F) - colder than deep space.

The LHC has thousands of magnets which will be maintained in this frigid condition using liquid helium.

Cern lab goes 'colder than space'

bbc.co.uk - 30 stunning images of the Large Hadron Collider

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