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Archive Home > 2010 > November > 05 > Quest to solve cosmos pushes on

Quest to solve cosmos pushes on

The Large Hadron Collider has begun smashing particles, and physicists have trillions of reasons to be giddy about it

By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
November 5, 2010

CESSY, France — It was late on an August evening when the proton wranglers at the Large Hadron Collider finally got 5 trillion high-energy particles under control, squeezed and tweaked them into tight bunches, and started banging them together.

“Seven minutes too late,” grumbled Darin Acosta, a....

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