Atomic Smasher's First Experiment

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The world's largest atom smasher's first experiment (1) which as they say will change the universe went off today without a hitch, paving the way toward the re-creation of post-big bang conditions. The Large Hadron Collider fired a beam of protons inside a circular, 17-mile (27-kilometer) long tunnel underneath villages and cow pastures at the FrenchSwiss border. Inside the control room, physicists and engineers cautiously shot the beam down part of the tunnel; (2) they have stopped it before it went all the way around. "Oh, we made it through!" one of the scientists cried (3) as they watched the beam make it through a further section of the tunnel. The first particles were sent (4) at 12 pm local time. One hour after starting up, on the first attempt to send the beam circling all the way around the tunnel, it …show more content…

"First of all, I didn't believe it," said Verena Kain, a European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) engineer. "I had to see it a second time, and I thought, Oh, wow, it actually worked! We’ve been through the prepping, the planning, (5) the run-throughs, etc, and it was great to run it for real.” (6) "You know things can go wrong at any time, but luckily this morning everything went smoothly," said Lyn Evans of CERN, who oversaw the building of the accelerator. (7) “We seen these huge events go wrong before.” The collider "was first proposed more than 20 years ago," said Django Manglunki, an accelerator physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), on Tuesday. "We've been preparing that beam for more than ten years." It smashes together particles smaller than atoms at near-lightspeed to break them down (8) into it’s constituent parts and recreate conditions which

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