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First Collisions At the LHC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-sure-the-world-is-still-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "At 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) today, the first protons collided at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider. These first collisions, recorded by the LHC experiments, mark the start of the LHC's research program."

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  1. Re:First events by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has anyone told Centauri about this?

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  2. Re:Why not "strangelets"? by rubycodez · · Score: 0, Troll

    that will be later, when they ramp up to 14 TeV, we have a 90% chance of perishing in a "stranglet conversion". However, the legal department of the LHC has advised the directorate that this situation poses no risk, as dead people don't seek redress of grievances via litigation