Big Bang Machine Switched On Today
September 10th, 2008 | 
Author: The Worlds Largest Superconducting Particle Collider Was Switched On in Switzerland Today
Even though some apprehension led up to the device’s launch, the Large Hadron Collider was switched on today and it successfully fired protons around a 17-mile tunnel. Physicists celebrated all over the world as the “white blips” flashed across the control screens, indicating the protons had successfully completed their journey.
The LHC has been in planning stages since 1984 and cost $10 billion to make. But now with the first test out of the way, the scientists hope to discover brand new things about our planet and the universe.
The first real experiments will begin in a few weeks, where significant collisions are expected between protons. The protons will be fired at speeds nearing the speed of light in opposite directions around the tunnel and then magnets will be used to smash them into each other.
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Words cannot adequately describe what a big deal this is.
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will most likely reveal to us new information about not only the origins of the universe, but also that we are living in far more than the three dimensions familiar to us all.
We truly are living in very exciting times.