Tour CERN and the Large Hadron Collider with Google Street View

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Few people without PhDs ever set foot inside CERN’s (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) lab in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the Large Hadron Collider. And although we have had the opportunity to share some stunning pics of the world’s largest particle accelerator before, Google is one-upping us (go figure) by letting you take a virtual stroll with Street View.

That’s right, we can now add CERN to the ever-growing list of awesome locations that Google is lets you tour from the comfort of your favorite chair.

When we shared The Atlantic‘s photos of the LHC, we pointed out the “beauty in the machine” that these photos captured. The Street View imagery is no different, except that now you can explore many more vantage points.

Acronyms like ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHC take on a new meaning when you get to see the massive underground machines with your own eyes.

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1. ATLAS, a digital camera the size of a ten story building.

It's 45 meters long and 25 meters in diameter!



Here's an end view while it was under construction with a human for perspective.


Here's ATLAS physicist and BBC science media star, Brian Cox, taking the Dean of the Guildford Cathedral on a tour of CERN, and ATLAS, talking science and theology.

A very interesting discussion which crosses over to disciplines of science, religion, and even politics. (BTW, Stock is a liberal Christian.) It's worth a listen.