'Big Bang' machine up and running; SCIENCE.THE 'Big Bang' Large Hadron Collider This article or section contains information about an expected future scientific facility. It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change as the facility approaches completion. could be restarted this weekend after more than a year of repairs. But officials have avoided giving a date for sending beams of protons around the 17-mile tunnel which houses the collider 100metres below the French-Swiss border. The LHC LHC Large Hadron Collider LHC Lahore High Court LHC Lonely Hearts Club LHC Lake Havasu City (Arizona, USA) LHC Log Homes Council LHC Left-Hand Circular LHC Les Horribles Cernettes (band) was switched on in 2008 but had to be shut down when a faulty electrical connection caused a tonne of helium to leak into the tunnel. The LHC will recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang. Two beams of protons will be fired around the tunnel, smashing into each other to produce new particles in the debris. |
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