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An Engineer in Wonderland - Big Science

cern icon-velo-2008-001.gifI admire the search of knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

And I particularly admire it when lots of engineers get paid to design interesting and challenging stuff to support the science.

Which is why I was particularly impressed when a friend drew my attention to some pictures from the Large Hadron Collider under the boarders of Switzerland and France.

Wow - to the scale of the thing, and the courage of the vision that made it possible.

'Alice'

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(Pictured: Three modules of the LHCb Vertex Locator in the H8 test beam in the North Area)

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Amazing. Those are seriously impressive images. The golden hues add to their lustre (!)

AW

Alice,
I just spotted your tag;
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment @ CERN)

Now we know ;-]

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