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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aye_sha90" data-source="post: 5926683" data-attributes="member: 11913">The Large Hadron Collider experiment has re-started after a 14-month hiatus while the machine was being repaired.CERN LARGE COLLIDER RESTARTS ITS WORK<a href="http://img27.imageshack.us/i/cernlhct2030shighn.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9977/cernlhct2030shighn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Engineers have made two stable proton beams circulate in opposite directions around the machine, which is in a tunnel beneath the French-Swiss border.The team may try to increase the £6bn ($10bn) collider's energy to record-breaking levels this weekend.The LHC is being used to smash together beams of protons in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.It is the world's largest machine and is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel.During the experiment, scientists will search for signs of the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is crucial to our current understanding of physics. Although it is predicted to exist, scientists have never found it.Dozens of giant superconducting magnets that accelerate the particles at the speed of light have had to be replaced after faults developed just days after the collider was inaugurated last yearFor more info >>> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8371662.stm</a></blockquote>

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