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Re:If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... by fjh on Saturday September 25, 2010 @07:46AM (#1726775)
Sorry about the nitpick, but no, the LHC does not use antimatter. Both beams consist of protons (or heavy ions sometimes). Some of the accelerators at CERN, like the LEP (Large Electron Positron) Collider, do use antimatter, but the LHC does not.
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Re:If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... by sbierwagen on Saturday September 25, 2010 @07:52AM (#1726783)
Thanks for the correction. Upvoted.
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