Collider Beams Up at CERN
GENEVA, Sept. 10, 2008 -- After 20-plus years of planning, billions of dollars, lawsuits, and even death threats, the first beam of protons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator was successfully steered around a 17-mile racetrack at nearly the speed of light this morning, ushering in what is expected to be a new era of scientific discovery. "It’s a fantastic moment," said LHC project leader Lyn Evans, "We can now look forward to a new era of understanding about the origins and evolution of the...