Katie Mack on Twitter: "This is the beam switch in the LHC control room at @ CERN. If something goes wrong, this lets controllers “dump” the proton beam by spreading it out and
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General view of the ATLAS particle detector control room. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the biggest p Stock Photo - Alamy
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