Discovering the Origins of the Universe

After 14 years of labor, scientists at the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory outside Geneva successfully activated the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is now the world's largest, most powerful particle collider and, at $8 billion, the most expensive scientific experiment to date. It supersedes the former #1 in the World, the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.

At 4:28 a.m. EDT on September 10, the CERN scientists announced that a beam of protons had completed its first circuit around the collider's 17-mile-long racetrack, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border. They then sent the beam around several more times.

"It's a fantastic moment," said Lyn Evans, who has been the project director of the collider since its inception in 1994. "We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the universe."

Eventually, the collider is expected to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts and then smash them together, recreating conditions in the primordial fireball only a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Scientists hope the machine will be a sort of Hubble Space Telescope of inner space, allowing them to detect new subatomic particles and forces of nature.

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