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Woman tries to shut LHC

Updated on: 10 March,2010 08:24 AM IST  | 
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A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher -- Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which she feared would lead to the earth's destruction

Woman tries to shut LHC

It was shut down again in December, this time to ready it for collisions at unfathomed energy levels which began last month.



The scientists' holy grail is to find a theorised component called the Higgs Boson, commonly called the "God Particle", which would explain how particles acquire mass.

The woman had argued that Germany -- as a member of CERN, or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research -- should be obliged to intervene and ensure that the amount

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