Alice is actually A Large Ion Collider Experiment (so far for cool abbreviations...) and is one of the humongous experimental installations at CERN. CERN in turn is the large particle accelerator near Geneva, which is located in an underground circle with a circumference of 27 kilometer!
A few weeks ago I was in the lucky opportunity to visit the Alice experiment. I'm not going into any details behind the science; mainly because I have no clue what it's actually doing. I can tell you though that looking down at the machine 50 meter down the ground was very impressive. Here some extra pictures for you to get an impression:
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