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Tue 12 Dec 2009Cern breaks world record with its giant atom smasher
A WORLD record has finally passed from the US to Europe and is likely to remain there for some time to come. The giant Cern complex has just broken the record for the highest energies yet achieved when smashing atomic particles together.
The new world record passes from the Fermilab complex outside Chicago and moves to Cern and its 27km long atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. Built into a tunnel under the French-Swiss border, the collider broke the energy record yesterday morning just after 4am.
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