The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests.

This is one of the most beautiful man-made objects I’ve ever seen. Bow down before the engineers who built this, people.

(title of the post obviously courtesy of xkcd)

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