The Great Accelerator Virilio Hardback Polity Press 9780745653884

The Great Accelerator\nby P Virilio\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: P Virilio\nTitle: The Great Accelerator\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Cultural studies\nPublisher: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745653884\nISBN-10: 074565388X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOn 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles.\n\nOn 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the.