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Large Hadron Collider Set Into Motion
Scientists started up Wednesday the Large Hadron Collider built underneath on border of France and Switzerland, RIA Novosti reported from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
For the first time Wednesday, the scientists will send a particle beam around all 27km circumference of the gigantic accelerator, which construction budget exceeded $5 billion. The facilities are tested at the minimal capacity that is 30 fold below its common one and without the proton collision to check final efficiency of all systems.
The excitement of scientific world is hard to overestimate. The hopes are that the Large Hadron Collider, the so-called Big Bang, will re-enact the conditions that created the universe, tracing the Higgs boson or BEH Mechanism, the so-called "God Particle" that will show how the massless elementary particles manage to construct mass in matter.
But the agiotage of mass media matches the excitement of researchers. Quite a few of observers apprehend that proton collision will create black holes and the doomsday will follow. CERN predictably insists that the experiments are absolutely safe.
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