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How many laps of the Large Hadron Collider's 27-km ring does a proton complete every second?
11,245
laps per second
Protons in the LHC lap the entire 27-km ring 11,245 times every second — crossing the French-Swiss border over 22,000 times per second.SOURCECERN
Scale check: 11,245 is roughly a lower-league football crowd.
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