UPDATE: Restarted LHC Sees First Collisions

National Geographic News ^ | November 23, 2009 | Ker Than

[SunkenCiv]

An engineer peers at damaged magnets inside the Large Hadron Collider on December 11, 2008 -- almost a month after an electrical glitch stopped the first attempt at sending a beam of protons around the world's largest particle accelerator.

After more than a year of repairs, physicists now have both beams of protons stable and circulating though the collider's main ring, LHC managers announced on November 23, 2009.

Photograph courtesy Maximilien Brice, CERN

[SunkenCiv]

My guess is, they'd have more success if they studied amateuron collisions.

Why yes, I kept my day job. Why do you ask?

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[allmost]

Tru dat boo.

[SuziQ]

CERN ping!

[JoSixChip]

After seeing the new Star Trek movie I’m not so sure creating little black holes is such a good idea.

[spokeshave]

BOL for a time traveling pigeon dispensing crouton fragments...

[martin_fierro]

[SunkenCiv]

Depends, you *may* be wanting to destroy the universe...

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

I feel all sparkly now. ;’)

[count-your-change]

I hear him counting...one proton, two protons.......

[allmost]

All that.

[spokeshave]

looks like the dilithium crystal is fragmented...

[onedoug]

Cosmic ray collisions in the upper atmosphere are alot more energetic than this thing. But with this collider
physicists can control the collisions and quantify the results. Crank it up!

"I reached out my hand, and touched the face of God."