First Beam For Large Hadron Collider

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 09:36 in Physics & Chemistry

An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists believe the LHC could help unlock extraordinary discoveries about the nature of the physical universe.

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