Editing Microcosm (CERN) (section)

== Main exhibits ==
The exhibition displayed many real objects, taking visitors on a journey through CERN's key installations, from the [[hydrogen]] bottle, source of the [[proton]]s that are injected into the LHC, through the first step in the accelerator chain, the [[Linear particle accelerator|linac]], on to a model of a section of the Large Hadron Collider including elements from the [[superconducting magnet]]s. Visitors could interact with the displays to try their hand at the controls of a [[particle accelerator]] – simulating the acceleration of protons in the LHC and bringing them into collision inside the [[List of Large Hadron Collider experiments|experiments]].

The exhibition contained a 1:1 scale model of a complete slice through the [[Compact Muon Solenoid|CMS]] experiment at the LHC. The computing section displayed some of the [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] data tapes used to store the 30-40 [[petabyte]]s of data produced yearly by the experiments, made available for analysis using the [[Worldwide LHC Computing Grid|LHC Computing GRID.]] The annex to the exhibition contained other historical artifacts such as the central tracker from the [[UA1 experiment|UA1]] detector, which ran at the [[Super Proton Synchrotron]] at CERN from 1981 to 1984, and helped discover the [[W and Z bosons]].