Sunday, November 22, 2009

Beam Sent From Large Hadron Collider After 14 Months Of Repairs

Large Hadron Collider: The machine has been restarted after $40million of repairs

From The Daily Mail:

The world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, has been re-started after 14 months of repairs.

The $10billion (£6billion) machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago – just nine days after the launch.

Scientists are hoping the results from the device, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid to recreate conditions after the Big Bang, will shed some light on the makeup of matter and the universe.

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