DR BRIAN COX - LARGE HADRON COLLIDER - WHAT IS IT ? - 1

DR BRIAN COX - LARGE HADRON COLLIDER - WHAT IS IT ? - 1

The Large Hardron Collider ("LHC") is based at Geneva, Switzerland at a place called CERN - European Centre of Nuclear Research [Centre Européenne de la Recherche Nucléaire].

CERN is the world's LARGEST particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of GENEVA on the Franco--Swiss border, established in 1954. The organization has 20 (twenty) European member states [there are 27 Member States comprised in the EU], and is currently the workplace of approximately 2,600 full-time employees, as well as some 7,931 scientists and engineers (representing 580 universities and research facilities and 80 nationalities).

CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research. Numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN by international collaborations to make use of them. It is also noted for being the birthplace of the World Wide Web ("WWW"). The main site at MEYRIN also has a large computer centre containing very powerful data processing facilities primarily for experimental data analysis, and because of the need to make them available to researchers elsewhere, has historically been (and continues to be) a major wide area networking hub.

As an international facility, the CERN sites are officially under neither Swiss nor French jurisdiction. Member states' contributions to CERN for the year 2008 totalled approximately € 664 million (Euros).

Brian Cox was in the boy band Dare and D:ream [and in Brut Commercials] after graduating with a BSc he went on to research for his PhD in particle Physics. He spends his time as Professor of Particle Physics at Manchester University & CERN [European Centre of Nuclear Research].

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[evilrobottolhurst]

What a superb example of Brian explaining things that are meant to be the most difficult in the world to understand. Hooray for Brian Cox, thanks for the upload!

[aFemale1]

@z1zaz Why do you think that "scientists gone MAD"?

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[z1zaz]

Brian is a clever guy, but Cern is scientists gone MAD !