CERN, Switzerland -- The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was effectively steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 in morning- setting the world record for the Biggest scientific project.
"It's been an massive engineering and scientific success. It's the biggest scientific project ever constructed in the world," project leader, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Lyn Evans, said.
The startup has been eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here.
“The LHC is a discovery machine,” said CERN Director General Robert Aymar, “its research programme has the potential to change our view of the Universe profoundly, continuing a tradition of human curiosity that’s as old as mankind itself.”
Scientists applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Particle physicist Dr Brian Cox, from the University of Manchester, who will be working on Atlas - one of the two largest detectors - said: “The Large Hadron Collider it is the most complex machine ever built, and it's going to take us to a place we've never been before."
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions.
Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole capable of swallowing the planet, failed in a legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
source:worldrecordsacademy.org
"It's been an massive engineering and scientific success. It's the biggest scientific project ever constructed in the world," project leader, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Project, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Lyn Evans, said.
The startup has been eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who will conduct experiments here.
“The LHC is a discovery machine,” said CERN Director General Robert Aymar, “its research programme has the potential to change our view of the Universe profoundly, continuing a tradition of human curiosity that’s as old as mankind itself.”
Scientists applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
Particle physicist Dr Brian Cox, from the University of Manchester, who will be working on Atlas - one of the two largest detectors - said: “The Large Hadron Collider it is the most complex machine ever built, and it's going to take us to a place we've never been before."
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions.
Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole capable of swallowing the planet, failed in a legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
