Hello World! ... The CERN ALICE Experiment joins Google+.

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Hello World!  ... The CERN ALICE Experiment joins Google+.

ALICE is the acronym for A Large Ion Collider Experiment, one of the largest experiments in the world, devoted to research in the physics of matter at an infinitesimally small scale. Hosted at CERN, the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research, this project involves an international collaboration of more than 1200 physicists, engineers and technicians, including around 200 graduate students, from 132 physics institutes in 36 countries across the world. The ALICE Experiment is searching for answers to fundamental questions, using the extraordinary tools provided by the CERN Large Hadron Collider:

What happens to matter when it is heated to 100,000 times the temperature at the center of the Sun?
Why do protons and neutrons weigh 100 times more than the quarks they are made of?
Can the quarks inside protons and neutrons be freed?