"Three decades after it was conceived, the world's most powerful physics experiment has sent the first beam around its 27km-long tunnel.
Engineers cheered as the proton particles completed their first circuit of the underground ring which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash particles together with cataclysmic force.
This will recreate conditions in the Universe moments after the Big Bang."
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I just can't imagine how excited those scientists must be after waiting thirty years to try this thing out. It makes me think of the people in the Middle Ages who spent their whole lives building cathedrals.
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