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    It Takes A BIG Machine To See Tiny Particles

    It took more than a magnifying glass to find the Higgs boson... one of the detectors is Compact Muon Solenoid, which is 50 feet high and weighs more than 12,000 tons! [Image from CERN]

    Phil Plait
    by Phil Plait

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    It took more than a magnifying glass to find the Higgs boson... one of the detectors is Compact Muon Solenoid, which is 50 feet high and weighs more than 12,000 tons!

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