Great Accelerator

by Paul Virilio

Book Overview

On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the reckless search for 'God's particle' put on hold.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745653898
• ISBN13: 9780745653891
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.5"