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The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tuesday, Aug. 04, 2009

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  • NIMA ARKANI-HAMED,
  • a particle theorist, on perplexing problems with the $9 billion Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-long particle accelerator in Switzerland
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