Well we all know that Wednesday was a scary day for all for at 08:30 BST they turned on the “"Large Hadron Collider”. WIkipedia tells us;
The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over eight thousand physicists from over eighty-five countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories. The LHC is operational and is presently in the process of being prepared for collisions. The first beams were circulated through the collider on 10 September 2008, and the first high-energy collisions are expected to take place after 6-8 weeks. [Source: Wikipedia]
Many people watched the webcams located around the facility with their fingers crossed that all would be fine; but there is more to come at the numerous experiments being carried out continue. Below are two of the primary webcams their main site is here.
- Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side.
- Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.
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