Ars Technica went backstage at the Large Hadron Collider and all they got was a stupid T-shirt. And this great photo essay—in which we see lots of nifty hardware laying about, stare in awe at the world's first Web server, go inside the control room of the LHC itself, and discover that CERN has a gift shop. (That's an image of the visitor's center, across the street from said gift shop, above)
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