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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 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.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jul 19th, 2008 at 04:37:13 PM EST
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A month from now it's all over. The End Of The World Is Nigh!!!

:-)

by asdf on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 12:30:30 AM EST
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how many petro-slaves will it take to crank that mofo up?

should we all put our passports in a safe place?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 01:31:29 AM EST
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That reminds me of Madrid's tunnel driller, named "la gallardona" after the mayor, Gallardón, who is bent on pharaonic (?) works for the missed 2012 and the hopefully-not 2016 Olympics, here.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
by metavision on Sun Jul 20th, 2008 at 02:23:42 PM EST
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