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Craig I went into Grenoble and got pissed. I spent a night in a bar called 'Le Hades' in a 17th century building. The decor was Medieval! When I got back to the Synchrotron one of the armed guards (there is a Nuclear Reactor on site) did not even want to see my pass. They knew where I had been and what I had done! They were to a man the equivalent of our SAS. They just knowingly waved me through.
The LHC is a vast machine an I applaud the people who designed it. I hope to live long enough to see some real results!
As an aside when the Synchrotron at Grenoble first started they had difficulty controlling the beam. It turned out that tidal forces were distorting the whole ring due to tidal distortion of the granite the ring was built in.
bert
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