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Simply smashing: The basics of hunting particles

From Ottowa Citizen, Nov. 6, 2008

Physics professor Alain Bellerive usually goes mountain biking on Tuesdays. This week, one of his biking buddies bailed out despite perfect weather. He said he wanted to see this cool lecture from the man who runs the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.

He didn't realize that Mr. Bellerive, a professor at Carleton University, works on that exact project, but the interest doesn't surprise the physicist.

The giant particle-hunting machine at the CERN lab in Switzerland has become the science subject for people who don't even like science.

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