CERN: Record-Breaking Energy Unleashed In World’s Largest Atom Smasher
The world’s largest atom smasher is really cranking now: Protons
zipped around the giant underground ring at near light-speed and
collided head on, releasing record-breaking energies.
The beauty of the fallout from these powerful particle smash-ups can
be seen in images released yesterday (May 21) by the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which oversees the
17-mile-long (27 kilometers) Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The
underground particle collider in Switzerland awoke in April after a
two-year snooze for repairs and upgrades.