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They have both hammers and phone books, I'm sure.


Have you seen the entrances to the accelerator caverns? You really need to watch your step there, if you fall you'll die for sure! The CERN is harnessing these ancient, fundamental powers for this, we barely understand how they work... gravity.


Probably a few ladders and some cleaning agents capable of creating slippery floors scattered around their facility as well.


It was all well and good when it was just "Gordon, please push the sample cart into the beam."


I'm pretty sure you can kill people with their particle accelerator too if the particles hit you. You'd probably be int he vacuum of the accelerator though so unsure if you'd notice.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

Didn't kill him, but "fatigue of mental work increased markedly," lost hearing in one ear, and half his face was paralyzed.

That was a 76 GeV proton beam, compared to the LHC at 6.5 TeV, or 85.5 times the energy per proton.


The LHC will most likely not be as tame in comparison.




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