The panels, delivered by SRB Energy, are derived from vacuum technology developed at CERN for particle accelerators.
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Unfortunately, even the biggest particle accelerators in existence probe energies which are only about a millionth of that.
Both use vast particle accelerators to speed up electrons, which spray out X-rays as they pass around the accelerators.
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So how is it that particle accelerators made their way to renewable energy?
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Physicists have their particle accelerators and biologists their cultured cells.
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This technique is so sensitive that Dr He's lack of discoveries probably means there is nothing to be discovered at least at the energies his particle accelerators were operating at.
The instruments are similar to those used in particle accelerators on Earth such as the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) outside of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Scientists hope that in characterising these particles they can address similar sorts of questions to those pursued in particle accelerators in Earth laboratories - how did the Universe come into being and how is it constructed?
Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).
Dr Andrew Taylor, the Director of Isis, says it achieved its world leading position by building upon the achievements of the accelerators developed for particle physics in the 1970s.
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