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After 14 years, $8B, and a whole lot of embedded computing and test & measurement equipment, the first beam in CERN's Large Hadron Collider ran around the entire 27km ring today, officially opening the world's most powerful particle collider for business.
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From the CERN press release:
"Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much
more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to
work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth
of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into
head-on collision. Today's success puts a tick next to the first of
those steps, and over the next few weeks, as the LHC's operators gain
experience and confidence with the new machine, the machine's
acceleration systems will be brought into play, and the beams will be
brought into collision to allow the research programme to begin."
Congrats to the many teams around the world who have played a part in this success.
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