The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has started operating again. The new, more powerful proton beam racing around a "magnetic rail" is described as being more powerful than a 400 tonne locomotive speeding at 90 mph. They will be looking for more evidence of conditions at the time of the Big Bang (think Higgs Boson). Since the beam is smaller than N scale and the energy is measured in full scale, this posting is obviously a compromise in O scale. Left unanswered is the question: if two speeding locomotives running in opposite directions on the same rails collided, would the conditions be more powerful than the Big Bang, in which case would trains run on 4 rails.
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