The Large Hadron Collider

What is the structure?

Who made the structure?

When was it made?

Where was the structure made?

How was it built?

Why was it built?

Criteria: Unique

• It is the only large particle accelerators in the world.
• Uses liquid helium for cooling, a very unique substance (superfluid)
• Accelerates particles to near light speeds(99.9999991%), no other machine can do this.

Criteria: Honorable

• It is built by people from all over the world.
• It is built for scientific purposes only, so no weapons can be developed from it.
• It is built inside the most neutral country in the world(Switzerland)
• Built near Geneva, a city known for world ethical conventions.

Criteria: Well-Known

• Thousands upon thousands of people worked on it.
• Millions of scientists have acknowledged and recognized it.
• About 20,000,000 articles have been written about or in relation to it, on the internet alone.

Why should it make the list?

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• "Large Hadron Collider." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 05 May 2016.