Here, we will define LHC by metrics, I’m sure you will be surprised.

• 27 kilometres = circumference of the LHC.
• 50 kilometres per hour = speed limit for physicists on site.
• 32 minutes = time taken by a law-abiding physicist to circle the ring.
• ~1 billion kilometres per hour (99.9999991% the speed of light) = maximum proton speed around the ring. (Can you imagine? it is nearly the light of speed)
• One ten-thousandth of a second = time taken by proton to circle the ring.
• 0.00000000047 grams = total mass of protons circulating in the LHC at any time.
• 362 megajoules = collective energy of LHC’s protons at top speed.
• 88,000 tonnes = total weight of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.
• 361 megajoules = energy of the USS Ronald Regan when cruising at 5.6 knots.
• US$4.1 billion = cost of building the LHC.
• US$4.5 billion = cost of the USS Ronald Regan.
• ~9,000 cubic metres = total volume of the LHC’s major vacuum systems.
• 4,650 cubic metres = interior volume of the Big Ben clock tower at Westminster.
• 14 years = time taken to build LHC.
• 13 years = time taken to build Big Ben.
• ~6 million = number of DVDs needed to hold all of the data generated by the LHC.
• 6.9 kilometres = height of 4 million DVDs stacked on top of each other.
• 4.8 kilometres = height of Mount Blanc.
• 0.75 grams = amount of hydrogen needed to fill a party balloon.
• 0.000000002 grams = amount of hydrogen consumed each day by the LHC.
• ~1 million years = time needed for the LHC to use one party balloon’s worth of hydrogen.
• 10^-13 atmospheres = vacuum of the LHC’s beamline.
• 10^-12 atmospheres = atmospheric pressure on the Moon.
• 8.3 tesla = top field strength of each of the LHC’s 1232 superconducting dipole magnets.
• 1 tesla = strength of a typical scrapyard electromagnet.

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