This morning in Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider successfully ramped its twin proton beams up to 3.5 TeV for the first time. This is the highest energy a particle accelerator has ever achieved. The next step: collide the two beams, at a combined energy of 7 TeV.
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someone queue the gremlins
I wonder what comicaly unlikely chain of events will put the atom smasher offline this time.
my money is on an small asteroid making it through the atmosphere and knocking out one of the generators.
When will it start up the collisions at 7 TeV?
@omaracoustic: latest I have read on that would be early 2013 at the soonest
7 TeV collision will occur 122112 @ 11:11. Annihilation. Armageddon. Pop Rocks & Coke simultaneously. Oh ... the humanity.....