Saturday, April 24, 2010

The time machine - Imagination Unlimited








Take a look at some quick facts about the project:
  • 20-year work-in-progress;
  • A team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations;
  • 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground;
  • Each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it;
  • Temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun's core;
  • Superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space.