brianfuckingcox:

“…and the whole thing is kept cool by loads of those blue plastic things which you keep in the freezer and put in cool-bags, you know, those blue things which you freeze and you can put them on your foot, say if you twist your ankle or something, so the tunnels in the LHC are like, really dead cold and that. In fact, if you went in one of the tunnels you would be able to see your breath; it’s that cold. It’s colder than the gaps in between the old jars at the back of my fridge, and it has to be kept at a fairly steady coldish temperature otherwise when the little whatnots bash together they could easily make a fire and then we’d have to rebuild the whole thing and it took over 7 weeks just to build ATLAS, at a cost of £2900…”

Reblogging myself like a BAMF.