World’s largest particle collider conducts successful test

GENEVA – The world’s largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 27-kilometre tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

“Eventually the two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to see how they are made.”

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