SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 25: The Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever - This is the next step of CERN - The workers positioned one of the CMS magnet - The CMS is the largest superconducting solenoid magnet of the world has reached full field - Weighing over 10,000 tons, the magnet of the CMS Collaboration is built around a superconducting solenoid 6 meters in diameter and 13 meters in length - It produces a field of 4 Tesla, almost 100 000 times higher than that of the Earth, and stores an energy of 2.5 GJ, sufficient to melt 18 tons of gold in Geneve, Switzerland on January 25th, 2007. (Photo by Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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