Re-start for 'Big Bang' machine
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been re-started after a hiatus of 14 months.
Engineers working on the machine achieved a stable, circulating proton beam just after 2100 GMT on Friday.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel about 100m beneath the French-Swiss border.
The experiment is designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.
The LHC has been shut down for repairs since an accident in September 2008.
Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the LHC will create similar conditions to those which were present moments after the Big Bang.
"It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again," said Cern's director-general Rolf Heuer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm
Engineers working on the machine achieved a stable, circulating proton beam just after 2100 GMT on Friday.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel about 100m beneath the French-Swiss border.
The experiment is designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.
The LHC has been shut down for repairs since an accident in September 2008.
Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), the LHC will create similar conditions to those which were present moments after the Big Bang.
"It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again," said Cern's director-general Rolf Heuer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm
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FishaHouse777
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Exciting, scary, and mind-blowing. This project is going to be the talk of the century if it works.
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FishaHouse777
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loupetho
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Surly this has to happen so that people in the future can send something to people in the past. That's unless it creates a black hole and sucks into another dimension, which is maybe where the message is coming from anyway ... buckle up!
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loupetho
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locutus [removed]
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Next time it won't be bread, next time it will be a Terminator!
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jac1992
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Fine then, don't listen to the people in the future.
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