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LHC Rap

By Robert H Olley in Beamlines
August 27, 2008

An explanation in RAP format of what the Large Hadron Collider is all about. It's nested in the following Daily Telegraph article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/26/scirap...

I enjoy it, hope y'all do too!

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