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The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. Switzerland, 15/10/2009.

As an international organization, the Foundation is dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research of international significance that must be carried out at an altitude of 3000-3500 meters above sea level or for which a high alpine climate and environment are necessary. The Research Station and Sphinx Laboratory at Jungfraujoch, together with the two astronomical observatories, Gornergrat South and Gornergrat North, are run for this purpose.

Scientists from universities, schools of technology, and research institutes of the member countries, and exceptionally from other countries, can carry out research in the laboratories and observatories provided by the Foundation. Administrative assistance and information are provided by the Foundation’s offices that are integrated in the University of Bern, Switzerland.
The Sphinx Laboratory is part of the Sphinx building and belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, a subsidiary company of the Jungfraubahn Holding AG. It is at the free disposal of the Foundation. It has an astronomical dome, two large and two small laboratories, a workshop, two terraces for scientific experiments, and a weather observation station. The observation instrument in the astronomical dome is a 76 cm telescope with Cassegrain and Coudé focus, and is part of the solar spectrometer of the Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique de l’Université de Liège, Belgium, and the LIDAR experiment run by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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High altitude laboratory at Jungfraujoch

The Sphinx Laboratory which belongs to the Sphinx AG Jungfraujoch, dedicated to providing the infrastructure and support for scientific research that...

by Anamitra Chakladar in Switzerland on 15/10/2009

Cern LHC Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, during repairs in September 2009 in Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland, 01/09/09

The LHC has been restarted in February 2010, The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is a particle accelerator, it extends for 27 km beneath  the franco-swiss border near by Geneva (50 meters below the surface). 
Cern LHC Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, during repairs in September 2009 in Geneva.  

It will work only 50% power rating. The purpose is to better understand the law of nature and the big-bang theory, due to Cern's speaker, scientists believe life on heart happened by accident, the particle accelerator will hopefully reveal the truth about it .The LHC will shut down in 2012 for ordinary repairs to re-open in 2013.

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The Hadron Collider has been restated in February

Cern LHC Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, during repairs in September 2009 in Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland, 01/09/09

by mariofarinato Farinato in Switzerland on 01/09/2009

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