Oh, My The Ilumminati Have Us

Question for the Big Bangers, "Who created the first two protons?" Al Gore might be a reasonable answer for the Climate Change types, but it's not good enough for me.

Steve
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World's largest atom smasher is restarted

By Associated Press
Saturday, November 21, 2009

GENEVA -- Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.

It took a year of repairs before beams of protons circulated in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since it was heavily damaged by an electrical fault.

Circulation of the beams was a significant leap forward. The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments -- probably starting in January -- regarding the makeup of matter and the universe.

Progress on restarting the machine, on the border between Switzerland and France, went faster than expected Friday evening and the first beam started circulating in a clockwise direction around the machine about 10 p.m., said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The scientists have started preparing to circulate another beam in the opposite direction within the coming hours, Gillies said.


"We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.

With great fanfare, CERN circulated its first beams Sept. 10, 2008. But the machine was sidetracked nine days later when a badly soldered electrical splice overheated and set off a chain of damage to massive superconducting magnets and other parts of the collider, in a 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border.