Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run, the accelerator has been switched off to begin CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), a major programme of maintenance, consolidation, upgrades and installation work that will prepare the Laboratory for the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the next phase in the exploration of the fundamental laws of nature.

It's getting an upgrade!

What a title.

I just visited CERN 2 days ago. They have a whole science center that helps explain the reason for the LHC and how everything works. If you are a science geek I highly recommend it.

No! Keep going until we return to the sacred timeline!

That rhymes

Time to drop some particle physics in da club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

It had a good run!

Legendary boondoggle in a world of endless violence and poverty.

Looking forward to LHC++

I remember my science teacher talking about the LHC back in 2008 when they were just starting it up. He showed our class This YouTube video to try and explain what they were working on. Partial physics is still impenetrable for me but it's incredible to think about the kind of work and discovery they are doing there.