After two false starts Tuesday, the Large Hadron Collider—a $10 billion particle accelerator near Geneva—smashed together its proton beams for the first time, marking a new era in physics with a clash of subatomic "cymbals." "My reaction is a great sigh of relief—and excitement," said senior scientist Ian Hinchliffe at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, who has been working on the collider's particle detectors since 1996. "It is finally really working, and we can move to a phase where we can get real physics out of it." More>
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Hadron Collider Gets Off to a Smashing Start
After two false starts Tuesday, the Large Hadron Collider—a $10 billion particle accelerator near Geneva—smashed together its proton beams for the first time, marking a new era in physics with a clash of subatomic "cymbals." "My reaction is a great sigh of relief—and excitement," said senior scientist Ian Hinchliffe at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, who has been working on the collider's particle detectors since 1996. "It is finally really working, and we can move to a phase where we can get real physics out of it." More>
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