UPDATE 9/9/2008 5:15 PM: See Hadron photos at Hadron Collider Photo Gallery

Let’s get ready to rumble!

Late tomorrow night, pajama-clad scientists around the world will get ready to celebrate a long-anticipated wake-up call for particle physics. On September 10, researchers will for the first time attempt to circulate a beam of protons around the 27-kilometer-long circular tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider, poised to become the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.

In a few months, the accelerator will gear up to smash together proton beams five times more energetic than any other collider has managed. Next year, when the accelerator is set to run at full capacity, each proton beam will carry seven times more energy and have about 30 times the intensity of any beam at any other accelerator.


ATLAS is one of the massive laboratories surrounding the huge underground tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider, set to start up September 10.

Read the entire story at Science News…

Here’s a link to the LHC rap video.

Keywords: CERN, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, supercollider, black hole

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