The What? Collider

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627621.400-those-unrelated-related-items.html

THE Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, seems fated to suffer misnomers. We reported on 13 February that it got called the Large Hadron Colander in a London pub quiz.

Now Richard Walder tells us that there is an exhibition of artworks at the De la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea on the English south coast, with the theme "The artist and the role of science in the search for the 'God particle'". It features photographs of colliders and particle smashers from around the world, one of which has this caption: "Shown here is the 27-kilometre underground tunnel on the French/Swiss border known to science as 'The Large Hardon' collider". It was only a matter of time.

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