LHC switched on, world still here
Wed 10 Sep 2008
Today was the culmination of decades of work when the LHC was finally switched as the entire world watched.
At 9:30am local time the team at CERN began to start the beams in the LHC and by 10:30 the first beam had done a full circuit of the machine. It only get better with more beams being injected every 48 seconds and getting a full 3 laps done every time.
After a short break the attempts began to get the second beam into the machine going anti-clockwise and again after and hour of fine tuning and testing the second beam had done its first lap of the ring
These historic first steps are the start of the cutting edge physics that the LHC will do in the next couple of decades and will keep the scientists, and the Grid, busy for years to come.
Unfortunately for some no black holes were created and Satan din't use it as an inter dimensional stargate to Earth, ah well you can't win 'em all.
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