Congratulations CERN

[unixronin]

The Large Hadron Collider is online and generating beam collisions at 7TeV.  All four major experiments are producing good data.

Now, we begin to pry open another level of the Universe.  I can't tell you how much it excites me to see this happening.

Watch the live feed here.

Comments

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

I nearly cried when the LHC lost its liquid helium and some of it was thereby destroyed the first time they tried to start it up. It's great to see that it's online and working just fine! (Problem: How do we get the brains of the doomsayers who've been screaming that the LHC will destroy us all to work better? Unfortunately, letting out all the liquid helium in them won't shut them up, because they don't have any liquid helium in them. I think somebody at Microsoft did the original programming of their brains -- the same people responsible for Windows 95 . . .)