Just kidding. But who could resist that sort of headline.
The Large Hardon Collider was activated today at the French-Swiss border.
From NYT…
At 4:27 a.m., Eastern time, scientists sent the beam of protons around the collider’s 17-mile-long racetrack, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border, and then sent another beam through again.
And this gem…
Eventually, the collider is expected to accelerate protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts and then smash them together, recreating conditions in the primordial fireball only a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Freaking awesome!
