Largest particle collider conducts successful test

Largest particle collider conducts successful test

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GENEVA (AP) — The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 a.m. (0836 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the US$3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider.

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Yes! now I can add "a black hole from the particle collider ate my homework"

A new dwan of discovery has just risen!!

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Originally posted by DisabledVet


Yes! now I can add "a black hole from the particle collider ate my homework"

A new dwan of discovery has just risen!!

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i think you will be better off saying that all the atoms in your homework book demeterialised due to a freak physics accident and remeterialised somewhere else. (i actualy read somewhere that it woudl be possible, but like 1 billion to 1 chance, im gonna use it if i ever comit a crime )

its a great day for science i cant wait till they turn up the juice and start smashing those protons,.

They didn't collide anything today, they just shot a beam, but still good news Sometime in October they will collide something, last night they had an information show on the LHC on the History Channel

I can't help it, I have to share this comment posted in response to this article...

www.thisislondon.co.uk...'s+Big+Bang+begins/article.do

Simple risk versus reward. Let's plug in the variables shall we? On one side we have the potential to unlock a new understanding of physics and our universe - at the very least expand our current knowledge base. On the other, France gets sucked into a black hole. Hmm...

This is Houston, We're a Go. Godspeed.

- Adam, Houston, TX

LMAO!

[edit on 9-10-2008 by Valhall]