Geneva, 10 September 2008
The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
“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 universe.”
Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into head-on collision.
É um aparato impressionante...! Agora fico à espera dos resultados... Com religião ou não à mistura, algo de novo irá ser descoberto certamente. Mesmo que não seja o esperado, é conhecimento, e ficamos todos a ganhar com isso.
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