Science in 140 characters: 300 TB of collisions

A third of this information is “data from proton collisions at 7 TeV (Transient Earth Voltage), making up half the data collected at the LHC by the CMS detector in 2011”, a CERN statement said.
@seanmcarrollSean M Carroll, Theoretical Physicist
European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is one of the grandest and most expensive scientific endeavours in human history, and most of what is done at CERN is either too advanced or too expensive for everyone else to use.
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