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- initialism physics Initialism of Large Hadron Collider. It is the World's biggest
particle accelerator .
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The LHC is the most extreme example of expensive basic physics research.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010
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The LHC is scheduled to be reactivated later this month.
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Apparently, among the many singular properties of the Higgs that the LHC is meant to discover could be the ability to turn back time to stop its cover being blown. here
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Apparently, among the many singular properties of the Higgs that the LHC is meant to discover could be the ability to turn back time to stop its cover being blown. here
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Of course LHC is just using your little devils-advocate approach to score himself the right to throw racial epithets at people in a hurtful and non-satirical way, without having to suffer the indignity of being called a racist bigot in return.
Think Progress » National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants. 2010
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Though the LHC is not planned to operate in the winter (ski season and all), I imagine this first one will be non-stop.
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And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, “the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown.”
Will the Large Hadron Collider Doom Us All? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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Once the LHC is operational, two particle beams — usually consisting of protons accelerated to high energies — will be fired down pipes running through the magnets.
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CERN's LHC is aiming to investigate a region now called "the desert," see what there is to see.
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Didn't that CERN rap tell us we'll know whether dark matter exists once the LHC is up?
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