Large Hadron Collider up and running again

A silicon detector being installed in the Large Hadron Collider in December 2007.

(Credit: Michael Hoch/CERN)

The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in full operation after a year of repairs.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, said in a statement on Friday that particle beams are once again circulating in the LHC, and that a clockwise circulating beam was established at 10 p.m. in Geneva.

According to the CERN Twitter feed, an anticlockwise beam was also successfully injected, and both beams have completed many thousands of turns of the LHC.

Read more of "Large Hadron Collider up and running again" at ZDNet UK.

[Bopace]

Awesome!

[mrcjacobs]

The earth should be swallowed by a black hole within a month....

[shuyin84]

wouldnt an anticlockwise beam be known as "counterclockwise?" why must science make everything complicated

[snigglepop]

yeah, and why can't all scientists speak american?

[xaduurv]

@ shuyin84 and snigglepop: Wow... just wow.

[b08bydigital]

Speak American? You mean English?

[SteveMcQwark]

Outside of North America, 'anticlockwise' is frequently used instead of 'counterclockwise'

[baconstang]

How anti-intuitive.

[jaguar717]

No, people from England speak English.

Obviously he was joking, but since you were serious enough to post such a ridiculous rebuttal I'll be serious and say it makes a lot more sense to call our language "American", the thing the square-wheeled-car people speak "Canadian", and the thing those south of the border speak "Mexican" instead of Spain-ish.

By that logic, illegals would be speaking Manglish :-)

[shuyin84]

ahhh, i didn't know that actually lol

[rationalreview]

I thought they planned to have it fixed by 12/21/12

[markosph]

like 1900, like 2000, just another day in then neighborhood... except I hope to have a job by then.

[Special(e)]

"anticlockwise" is continental thing, not a scientific thing.

[Tim_Olaguna]

Now that I think about it "anticlockwise" makes more sense. And its shorter.

(Sigh) For this and other reasons I regret being born in California. Better to have been the south of France.

[Rawnchie14]

Sweet, now make a black hole to devour the earth already

[kingmatt67]

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!

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[Ebraheem]

Did they set up scarecrows around it? We don't want birds stopping it again..

[Hunnter2k3]

Forget the birds, where are the anti-tachyon shields? Damn time travellers trying to screw with our science.

[Toothbuck]

Perfect- and just in time for Chistmas. now watch someone list this thing on CraigsList and spike a huge demand for LHC's.

[tinlizziedl]

Watch out, Higgs boson- we're coming for you....

[knowles2]

Unless it does not exist.
An the science guys got there theories wrong.

Which means they either find something else or it back to the drawing boards.