Was reading this article while enjoying me Sunday lunchen... funny stuff - would the glasgow underground have no made a better LHC?
As you stand waiting for the inner circle to take you the long way round to St Enoch, there is an announcement: "Would passengers please stand clear of the platform as approximately 100 billion protons are currently passing round the outer circle 11,245 times per second, except for Cowcaddens, where there is a slight delay."
Physicists will have to store 2.2 petabytes (or 2,200,000 gigabytes) of data every year. As part of its funding for the project, Glasgow City Council has promised to get the wi-fi system at Hillhead Library fixed.
