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RE: Introduceyourself: Particle Physicist at the Compact Muon Solenoid at CERN
I always think it's funny they call it the "Large" hadron collider. It's the ONLY hadron collider. It could be called the itsy-bitsy hardon collider. Now I am wondering about the "compact" moun solenoid. Is there an non-compact? Sub-compact? Luxury moun solenoid? CERN is really, really cool when G+ launched hangouts, I pulled my oldest out of school for the first CERN hangout....6 or 7 years later and he is all about science. Your work has a far-reaching impact☺☺☺
I was heavily involved with those hangouts, both on and off camera, so am delighted to hear you and your son like them!
By the way the name Large Hadron Collider was coined when at least two other hadron colliders were running or being constructed. It just takes 25 years to build these amazingly complicated machines:-)
and I will explain why CMS is "Compact" in a future blog. Relatively it is, amazingly enough.