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| | The Large Hadron Collider: 'Cathedral' of the 21st Century |
 | | The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), just one year from completion at CERN, will be the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed, the largest and most technologically sophisticated machine ever built. |
 | | Hadrons are the general name for bosons (energy paricles) and fermions (quarks (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top, with red green and blue colors) and leptons (mu, tau, electron, mu neutrino, tau neutrino, and electron neatrino, no color force))) these are, by the way, including the anti-particles of said particles. |
 | | This article is not about *what* the LHC is. The article is about *why* we are spending nearly $8 billion dollars, an immesurable amount of man-hours, and the genius of our scientists in a project that, for the layperson, has no immediate practical applications or benefits. |
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