First Beam
September 10, 2008
Starting up a major new particle accelerator takes much more than flipping a switch. Thousands of individual elements have to work in harmony, timings have to be synchronized to under a billionth of a second, and beams finer than a human hair have to be brought into head-on collision.
Attention nerdlings. Tune in to the LHC “first beam” broadcast, 9am-6pm. So far, so good.