Large Hadron Collider Records Protons

The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time and causing the first particle collisions in the 10 billion dollar machine after more than a year of repairs.

The true test of the Large Hadron Collider will come in the first two months of 2010, when scientists plan to start deliberately crashing protons into each other to see what they can discover about the makeup of the universe and its tiniest particles.

Fabiola Gianotti from the Atlas particle physics experiment said "So, it's a big emotion because it's at the same time for me the end of a phase and the beginning of another phase. It's the end of 20 years of efforts of the international scientific community to build a machine and detectors of unprecedented complexity and technological challenges and it's the beginning of I hope a fantastic era of physics, exploration, of discovery, which I hope will change really the physics text books."

Ultimately, the collider aims to create conditions like they were one-trillionth to two-trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

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[GuitarRHCPfan]

Okay listen, eventhough the machine is huge, it is because we need infinately bigger machines to get to smaller results. The type of crashes they are causing between sub-atomic particles are exactly that..."SUB ATOMIC" so small, that they need a two story camera to capture just a bit of a flash from these collisions. What they are studying, is how matter can be created from energy, which made the universe. They have proven it so with the LHC...so do some research before you make outragous claims

[brady631]

fucking cunts!

[Beepinsqueekin]

Or CAUSE 2012.....

[cliffpup]

no we will all be dead before than when they do it next year and cause a black hole and wipe out earth lol

[cage305]

This is going to save us from 2012.