• Question: Have you ever been to the Hadron Collider? Is it as big or bigger than you expected?

    Asked by to Alan, Deepak, Francesca, Lilly, Nick on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Deepak Kar

      Deepak Kar answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Yes, I work with it! You know it is big, because all of us have seen pictures, but when you stand infront of a detector like ATLAS, it seems bigger than you imagined!

    • Photo: Francesca Day

      Francesca Day answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Yes! I couldn’t go and see the detectors though, because the collider was running for all the time as was there 🙁

    • Photo: Alan Fitzsimmons

      Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      No I’ve never been, so I’m very jealous of Francesca and Deepak!

    • Photo: Nick Wright

      Nick Wright answered on 16 Mar 2014:

      I have and its amazing! I visited it about 10 years ago when it was being contracted so I got to see all the different parts before they were put into place. It was really amazing because everything is so big it just seems unbelievable. They were building this really big detector called ATLAS at the time and they were about to put it underground so they’d had to build a really big hole that went from the surface to the huge tunnels underground when the particle detectors were.

      If you ever get the chance to visit CERN, or any other large scientific laboratory, I suggest you take the chance! Some science experiments like this are really large and its amazing to see them!

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