The LHC by mail
Each year the European laboratory CERN welcomes tens of thousands of visitors. Now the lab can visit them back.
Last summer, the French postal service of the Pays de Gex issued a set of pre-paid envelopes featuring the laboratory, which straddles the French-Swiss border. A second set of 10 envelopes, produced in collaboration with the laboratory and this time highlighting its Large Hadron Collider, went on sale at five post offices on November 12.
Each envelope in the new series focuses on a technical aspect or spin-off of the LHC. Some sets even contain a small sample of the superconducting cable used in the LHC magnets.
If you are not lucky enough to receive one of the envelopes in your mailbox, don’t despair. You can learn more about the LHC at the Web address printed on the envelopes, www.cern.ch.
Kurt Riesselmann
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