LHC's First Collision CERN

After 14 years of work and $5.5 billion, the LHC has survived faulty magnets, avian sabotage, and the threat of malevolent time travelers to finally collided its first particles.

Three days after the accelerator generated its first proton beam since shutting down last year, the giant particle accelerator sent two beams of protons speeding towards each other at nearly the speed of light. With the collision, the LHC got back on track to find the elusive Higgs boson.

The collision took place at an energy of 450 GeV, far below the maximum power of the accelerator. By Christmas, LHC scientists hope to generate collisions twice as powerful as yesterday's test. However, even at that doubled energy needs a sevenfold-increase to reach the LHC's maximum capacity, and the level where scientists might observe the Higgs boson.

The picture above shows the collision as recorded by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. The red and blue bars represent subatomic particles flying forth from the proton collision like atomic shrapnel. When the LHC finally ramps up to full power, the 3,600 scientists at the will witness the most powerful particle collisions ever engineered by man.

Let's hope they can keep the machine working, and safe from birds, until then.

And the Scientists Rejoice:  CERN

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Excellent. Hopefully it doesn't mean catastrophe or worse, entropy for planet Earth.

I've got a nickle that says Google will figure out a way to monetize entropy if it happens.....

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why is everyone in the photo so excited its just atoms hitting each other and makeing stuff that can end life as we know it

oh for gods' sake...

None of that crap is going to happen!!!

you know that collisions like this happen millions of times everyday in our upper atmosphere? We know they do but it's to random to observe.

There will be no black hole, there will be no entropy... What there WILL be is the dawn of a whole new realm of science. Dark matter, Higgs Boson, Hyperspace travel, Dark energy, just to name a few.

Stop being Drama Queens!!!

Agreed. It's not going to kill us, so lets just sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show. Proton Wars: A New Particle anyone?

Finally.. Now lets see if what we can see ;)

*-if ;)

The average person doesn't understand the science behind all this stuff, so don't be surprised when they think the world is going to end, =)

I think this picture applies to all those who are scared of the LHC becoming operational:
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Agrees with Seatellite

Agrees with Mvillanu and Seatellite

Seatellite.....I ment to post this above. It will create a black hole! It will just be so small that it will colapse in on its self and do no harm to anyone or anything.

Its pretty clear to me that all these people that are scared have no knowledge of physics whatsoever. I mean all three clearly have no understanding of entropy. These are the same types of people who say "The Mayans said the worlds gonna end in 2012" when they've never read any Mayan literature, know nothing of their culture or their calendar, but somehow they Know.

Agrees with Seatellite

The average person doesn't understand the science behind all this stuff, so don't be surprised when they think the world is going to end, =)
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Agreed. It's not going to kill us, so lets just sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show. Proton Wars: A New Particle anyone?
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The average person doesn't understand the science behind all this stuff, so don't be surprised when they think the world is going to end.
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I searched it by "Revitalized LHC Manages to Collide Protons",found a little information about it. Hopefully it doesn't mean catastrophe or worse, entropy for planet Earth.
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This stuff is so geeky i can't understand a thing.
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I'm so excited to see this thing finally work. Yea

I also find this article so much geeky, my elder brother understand all these things. but overall i love tech section.
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I sincerely hope the LHC will reach its maximum capacity, this will certainly permit to generate the most powerful collision of particle in history. I will keep following you just to know what happens.

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The average person doesn't understand the science behind all this stuff, so don't be surprised when they think the world is going to end,

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We have to admit that it is very hard to understand these things. Many people don't even know what a proton is or the had learn about it superficially in high schools and they forget. But it's good news to know that the LHC has been revitalized.
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Agreed. It's not going to kill us, so lets just sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show. Proton Wars: A New Particle anyone?

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