Keeping track of CERN's development

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Main Question or Discussion Point

I've actually been keeping track of CERN's development (although loosely) for about 4 years. Recently, theres been news of it and its almost finished. This stuff is amazing...can anyone tell me the goals of CERN??

 

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I've actually been keeping track of CERN's development (although loosely) for about 4 years. Recently, theres been news of it and its almost finished. This stuff is amazing...can anyone tell me the goals of CERN??

CERN is a research facility, and more accurately a collection of reserach facilites that have been around a long time - since the early 1950's. Is one by any chance referring to the Large Hadron Collider which is the newest large accelerator system at CERN.

CERN = Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research, but now it is Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN

Even better - CERN's website - http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/About/About-en.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Science/Science-en.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/Research/Research-en.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html


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http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm