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Control room for the LHC at Cern, Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) was put back into action Friday 20 November at 22:00, slightly ahead of schedule, announced Cern. The machine started up, but was quickly shut down after a problem a year ago. “The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago,” said Cern’s director for accelerators, Steve Myers. “We’ve learned from our experience, and engineered the technology that allows us to move on. That’s how progress is made.” The LHC, the world’s most expensive  machine, smashes atoms into each other at very high energies in order to recreate the conditions at the very beginning of the universe.

Background story, 20 November 2009

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News story, GenevaLunch, 20 November 2009.

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