LHC set for July start up

Engineers at CERN are making the final touches to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the biggest experiment in particle physics — and expect to have it running in the first half of July. Although the start-up schedule of the European particle accelerator has slipped by over a month since the last official announcement, there appear to be only minor problems left to resolve.

“It has been some time since we’ve been in this kind of position with this kind of research facility,” says James Gillies, a spokesman for CERN. “There’s real confidence that we’ll be collecting new data this year. It’s a very big time for us.”

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2 Responses to “LHC set for July start up”

  1. Ufff its such a relief that you are going to blow up this Earth. I had a really difficult time on it the past 20 years. Thank you for doing this. See you in Paradise. Regards

  2. erm first of all wat an emo, well the guy above me… and woop go particle physics!!! and i heard some deuche was trying to put a lawsuit against CERN because of the theory they would create a black hole, by hell if they did it was only last a second! not enough mass at all to become self sustainable

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