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The World’s Most Complicated Machine

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For over 20 years now, if you listened very carefully, the ground below the verdant fields of the Pays de Gex region of France has trembled very slightly and perhaps, just perhaps, faintly hummed.

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Beech, M. (2010). The World’s Most Complicated Machine. In: The Large Hadron Collider. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5668-2_2

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