• Question: What is the biggest machine in the world and what does it do?

    Asked by anon-205626 to Gabriel on 5 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-205638, anon-205695.
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      Gabriel Gallardo answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      The biggest machine in the world is the Large Hadron Collider. (It even has the word ‘Large’ in the name!)

      Perhaps surprisingly, the biggest machine in the world is actually a microscope of sorts, it lets us look at the smallest things in the universe – the lego blocks that make up our universe, known as fundamental particles.

      The Large Hadron Collider is 100 meters under ground, and is a 27-kilometer circle – that’s longer that the ring road that surrounds inner London!

      If you click on my name or my picture, you can check out the “My work” section of my profile and learn about the collider from what I’ve written there!

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