• Question: What is CERN?

    Asked by T-DIZZLE to Adrian on 5 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by #458Italia.
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      Adrian Buzatu answered on 5 Mar 2016:

      CERN is the largest particle physics lab in the world. It brings together 21 European countries. Together they study the smallest building blocks of the Universe and the recipe that keeps them together to create atoms. UK is one of the most important member country of CERN. It is the lab where I do my research. It hosts a particle accelerator (Large Hadron Collider), which behaves like a microscope, and particle detectors (the most important being ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE), which behave like digital cameras. With these tools, scientists such as myself use supercomputers to analyse large amounts of data.

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