Particle Accelerators
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Particle Accelerators

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202652 min
  • Science

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the machines that are described as the world’s largest experiments: Particle Accelerators. A famous example of a Particle Accelerator is the Large Hadron Collider, a device which stretches for nearly 30km, deep beneath the ground in a tunnel between France and Switzerland. This enormous scale enables the particles within to be propelled to incredible speeds, reaching almost the speed of light before they smash together. The resulting debris offers insights into the fundamental building blocks of our universe, such as the Higgs Boson Particle. These Colliders are international scientific pr...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hello, I'm Tom Gatti, literary editor and host of the Observer Book Club podcast. Join me for in-depth conversations with some of the world's best writers, such as Alif Shafak, Douglas Stewart and Robert Macfarlane.

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At The Observer we have a passion for storytelling, where they're rooted in fact or fiction. The Observer Book Club is a place where great stories and big ideas come together. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, it's been described as the world's biggest experiment and it sits deep beneath

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the ground in a tunnel between France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider, an international scientific project costing billions of pounds, a machine that stretches almost 30 kilometres and was built with the aim of answering some of the most fundamental questions about our universe. It's an example of a particle accelerator, devices developed over the last century that

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