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Published online 16 February 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.104
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Hollywood star could restart damaged particle accelerator
Tinseltown goes to CERN as Tom Hanks promotes latest thriller.
Actor Tom Hanks has agreed to turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) once it has been fixed.
The world's most powerful particle accelerator, based at the European particle-physics facility CERN in Geneva, is currently being repaired after breaking down in September last year, just nine days after circulating its first proton beams (see 'Eight-month delay for LHC'.
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0.25 grams antimatter plus 0.25 grams matter will give 10.7 kilotons nuclear. About 50% of hadron annihalation energy (99.97% of neutral atom mass) will boil of in neutrinos. Cheaper, easier, more effective to purchase a Russian tactical nuclear field munition. Single pole or double pole throw switch?
Prove Christ never rose from the dead by finding his bones and that he had a human semite father as well as a semite mother by suitable analysis of his DNA if you really want to destroy the Vatican. Wait a minute didn't Hanks just do a movie like that? The DA Vinci Code. Hmm perhaps the Vatican is more robust then Hollywood thinks!
i have read the novel...i just don't know how the author could write it before years.for us ,the lhc have just begun before some months.now they are saying that they have produced 10ng of antimatter in the past 55 years!!!!