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Large Hadron Collider in Google Earth

Scientists Activate Particle Collider

After 14 years and $8 billion, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, outside Geneva, succeeded in turning on the most powerful microscope ever built for investigating the elemental particles and forces of nature.

At 4:27 a.m., Eastern time, the protons made their first circuit around a 17-mile-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss French border, and then made a return journey.

via: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/science/11collider.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


The above image is from a Google Earth file which lets you view the LHC in Google Earth with a 3D model suspended above ground so you can see the layout.