The Biggest Machine in The World!!! CERN Photon Shooting 27 Kms Long Weapon of Mass Destruction ^^ (Just Kidding) -- Maior Maquina do Mundo

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Did you guess it? The image, taken in December 2014, shows the CMS Tracker with the newly inserted central and forward pixel detector. Read about the preparations required (including a video of the +CMS Experiment being opened up):http://cylindricalonion.web.cern.ch/blog/201412/delicate-operations-preparing-insertion-pixel-tracker.

Congratulations to +Franc Schiphorst, the first to get the correct answer to Friday's post.

Image credit Michael Hoch/CERN © CERN on behalf of the CMS experiment - for more images and terms of use seehttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1977415.

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