The world’s highest-energy particle accelerator
The Large Hadron Collider at Cern experienced its first collision a week ago and, as the BBC reports, in the early hours of this morning it officially became the world’s highest energy particle accelerator by accelerating its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV – breaking the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, held by the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratorys Tevatron collider since 2001. There’s an elongated Cern video report here. First physics due early 2010 …