Google Street View in the Large Hadron Collider is a smash

Welcome to the tunnel at the Large Hadron Collider.

(Credit: Screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)

Perhaps Google Street View should be renamed “Google Anything View.” Google’s wandering cameras have now made their way into CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the atom-smashing wonder located under the Franco-Swiss border.

Since it wasn’t feasible to send a Google Street View car into the Large Hadron Collider facility, a specially equipped trike was employed instead. The Street View explorations are now available online for the public to peruse. You can follow along through the tunnels of the particle collider and pretend you’re on the staff at CERN.

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