Archive for March 30th, 2010

Physics geeks celebrate: We have collisions in the Large Hadron Collider

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This morning they fired up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and started bashing the heck out of protons and it worked.This is the largest experiment ever. They physics geeks are beside themselves and trying to contain their excitement. They think the data produced in these collisions will help us understand – among other things [...]