‘Big Bang’ machine makes history by achieving first particle collisions
November 24, 2009 @ 7:12 am
UK Daily Mail
Tuesday, Nov 24th, 2009
Proton beams have been smashed together for the first time in the ‘Big Bang Machine’, a development which scientists hope will help unravel the origins of the universe.
The beams were circulated in opposite directions at the same time causing the first particle collisions in the £6billion experiment after 14 months of repairs.
It is only three days since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), situated under the Swiss-French border, was switched back on after being halted by an accident in 2008, just ten days after its first start-up.
Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hope experiments will start giving clues about the origins of the universe in the coming months as the world’s biggest particle collider starts moving to full power.
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