CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

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[NormsRevenge]

GENEVA (AFP) – The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.

"The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT)," CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.

He said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for "a half or even a complete circuit" of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

"If all goes well tonight we will try to circulate a beam of particles for several minutes around 0700 (0600 GMT)," on Saturday, Gillies said, adding that he would open a bottle of champagne if the accelerator kept on working.

The LHC promises to unlock scientific mysteries about the creation of the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter.

But the machine was shut down just nine days after its inauguration last September following a series of technical faults.

Since then, the LHC's components have been tested to an energy equivalent of five teraelectronvolts at full power.

The maximum output of what is currently the largest functioning collider in the world, at the Fermilab near Chicago in the United States, is one teraelectronvolt.

[Jack Black]

Not for long! Ninjas from the future will send back more sabotage agents to prevent the creation of Boson’s particle, which nature and future AI’s dispise.

That’s what’s stopped it twice before!

[Oratam]

In Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder's Dr. Frankenstein tells Marty Feldman's Igor to throw "the first switch" and the electrical equipment starts humming, then to throw "the second switch" and giant arcs of electricity shoot around the room, and finally to throw "the third switch!"

Igor says incredulously "not the third switch?" After Frankenstein confirms the order, Igor complies saying "wait'll this guy sees his bill!"

Terrific spoof.

(The third switch is labeled "The Works" by the way.)

[Tulsa Ramjet]

they have to start it back up.

they have to try and shut down that black hole they created near the core of the earth. look for a huge whirlpool starting in the caspian sea next year. its a matter of time.

[Cboldt]

-- Ninjas from the future will send back more sabotage agents to prevent the creation of Boson's particle ... --

Higg's particle, which is called a boson.