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Thoiry Destination Guide

Delve into Thoiry in France

Thoiry in the region of Rhône-Alpes with its 4,433 residents is a city in France - some 248 mi or ( 399 km ) South-East of Paris , the country's capital .

Interactive map of Thoiry

Current time in Thoiry is now 03:50 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Paris " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on your travel modalities, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Geneva, Dardagny, Thoiry, Sergy, and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois. While being here, make sure to check out Geneva . We encountered some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you curious about the possible sightseeing spots and facts in Thoiry ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Black Hole Rap

4:23 min by alpinekat
Views: 61956 Rating: 4.88

To turn on captions: mouse over little triangle in bottom right corner of video, go up to the CC box, click. Voila, lyrics. Still worried about black holes? Let me break it down. First off, congrats t ..

Speed of light broken by neutrinos at CERN

2:19 min by Anglosearch
Views: 32233 Rating: 4.79

anglosearch.com A fundamental subatomic particle, the neutrino, seems to be capable of travelling faster than the speed of light (that is, the speed of a photon through a vacuum). ..


CERN: LHC Virtual Visit

4:51 min by Best0fScience
Views: 12546 Rating: 4.91

www.facebook.com ... CERN: Virtual Visit of the LHC and the LINAC4 in 3D. --- Please SUBSCRIBE to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- LHC - the aim of the exerc ..

The CMS experiment at CERN

2:07 min by IainPurdie
Views: 9871 Rating: 4.73

Part of the huge LHC project spanning France and Switzerland, the CMS measures muons created by smacking tiny particles together. ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Rugby Club CERN

Rugby Club CERN - Meyrin - St Genis (RC CMSG) are a semi-professional Swiss rugby union club situated on the French–Swiss border, 5 kilometres northwest of Geneva. The club plays in the Swiss first division where it is one of the most successful teams in the league's history, behind Hermance RRC.

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Located at 46.24 6.04 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: Meyrin, Rugby union in Switzerland

Super Proton Synchrotron

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 kilometres in circumference, straddling the border of France and Switzerland near Geneva, Switzerland.

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Located at 46.24 6.04 (Lat./Long.); Less than 5 km away
Tags: Accelerator physics, CERN, Particle physics facilities

Intersecting Storage Rings

The ISR (Intersecting Storage Rings) was a particle accelerator at CERN. It was the world's first hadron collider, and ran from 1971 to 1984, with a maximum center of mass energy of 62 GeV.

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Located at 46.23 6.04 (Lat./Long.); Less than 5 km away
Tags: CERN, Particle experiments, Particle physics facilities

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

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Located at 46.23 6.05 (Lat./Long.); Less than 5 km away
Tags: 1989 introductions, English inventions, Human–computer interaction, Information Age, World Wide Web

History of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.

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Located at 46.23 6.05 (Lat./Long.); Less than 5 km away
Tags: History of the Internet, World Wide Web

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Historical Weather

temperature and rainfall during the year in Thoiry