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Thursday, September 11, 2008

World's biggest experiment 'Big Bang' starts well


Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash protons together with cataclysmic force.

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