The G reat Accelerator
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C i rcu it, sho rt-ci rcu i t - there i s n o circus without a ci rcle, the kukloJ of Ancient G reece and the O lympic cyclades of the acceleratio n of old! In 2009, a year after the launch , in the m iddle of the economic crisis, of the G reat Accelerator, that CATHEDRAL built by C ERN in Geneva, a circular TEM PLE b uilt for the last lap of the Formula 1 world championship opened in Abu D h a b i - that is, i n the m i ddle o f the desert .
Speed of light for the fans of physi cs and of the HAD RON , the particle known as ' G od's panicle' and sought i n vai n even then, C ERN' s collider having b roken down . . . Light of speed for the designers of the Abu Dhabi racetrack according to who m ' th i s circu it is the o nly one in the wo rld designed so spectato rs have a full view' , the D RO M O LOG ICAL prowess so vainly sought by the physicists o f the infi nitely small was coupled here - o ne year later - with a p rowess that is D ROMOSCO PIC, by supporters of the infinitely big o f the spectacle of acceleratio n . Th is, at a time when the automob ile was being 'scrapped', in F rance, i n a bid t o restart an i ndust ry that ' s in the dold ru m s . . .
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