It cost some £6.2 billion to build, but the Large Hadron Collider may have justified that enormous price tag after it finally located Professor Brian Cox’s lost car keys. The keys were lost by Cox in the 1990s while an undergraduate at the University of Manchester and his 1987 Nissan Micra has remained in an NCP car park ever since.
Posted: Dec 12th, 2011
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Posted: Mar 31st, 2010
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particle accelerator may ‘create or big black hole that will suck us all in or mess up our DNA or something’.
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