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LHC back in action

Friday, November 20, 2009

Tonight scientists at CERN are rebooting the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in an attempt to recreate the conditions fractions of a second after the Big Bang by crashing opposing proton beams, traveling at nearly the speed of light, into one another. Shortly after the LHC’s debut last September, a manufacturing glitch in wiring led to a liquid helium explosion that left the surrounding equipment da...


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