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To: Erasmus

since 2000, physicists have been accelerating gold nuclei around a 2.4-mile underground ring to 99.995 percent of the speed of light and then colliding them

Why are they using Gold?


33 posted on 02/22/2010 10:44:02 PM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: TomasUSMC

Big nuclei. Less misses.


34 posted on 02/22/2010 11:05:15 PM PST by onedoug
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