The most Ambitious Experiment in History - LHC

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The machine's' Big Bang 'working successfully. Successfully inaugurated the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the largest particle accelerator in the world The goal is to simulate the 'Big Bang' to find the most elementary particles Its construction has taken two decades and has cost 4,000 million euros CERN's expert examined the CMS detector, which is part of the LHC particle accelerator.

Last Thursday 11/09/2008 14:55 (CET) Pablo Jauregui (Special Envoy) Geneva .- The machine's' Big Bang 'has become operational. Scientists at CERN in Geneva have managed to inject for the first time a beam of protons in the circular tunnel, 27 kilometers from the Great colliders Hadrones (LHC), the largest particle accelerator in the world. "There he is!", "Wow!", "We have succeeded!"

These are some of the shouts of joy were heard in the Chamber of Control of what many consider the greatest scientific experiment and ambitious in history. Throughout nearly an hour, from 9:30 in the morning until 1025, hundreds of scientists and journalists have followed this event, which represents a major milestone in the history of physics. For the moment, this first dress rehearsal means that the components of this powerful machine, built at 100 meters below ground between the borders of Switzerland and France, operating as envisaged by its creators.

The tension of 'parents' scientists particle accelerator is palpable in the environment of the Board of Control, and more than a bit fingernails while the first, historic beam of protons began to move along the LHC ring. In this kind of test pilot, the process was conducted in a gradual, with stops at each of the eight areas where the underground tunnel is subdivided by moving subatomic particles.

But in the end, everything was silk. "Today is a great day for CERN and for science," exclaimed excited Robert Aymar, director general of CERN. "Bravo to all who have made it possible." "It's a very exciting moment for me is the culmination of many years of work," declared Mary elmundo.es Chamizo, a Spanish researcher of the Center for Research in Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), which also participate in the experiments of the pioneers LHC.

Soon after, at 1500 hours the same success again repeated again, with another particle beam that traveled along the LHC ring in the opposite direction. Faced with such scientific apotheosis, there were many bottles of champagne to be uncorking yesterday in the Chamber of Control of the LHC. Two decades of work After two decades of work in the design and construction of a Pharaonic that has meant an investment of 4.000 billion euros, physicists from around the world anxiously await the first results of the pioneering experiment.

Never before had built a machine so powerful in order to answer some of the oldest questions that always has been raised Humanity: What is it made the world around us? And how he became like? "What we discovered in this new accelerator will enable us to better understand the universe and the theories that explain how it evolved," explains Dr. Chamizo.

(Comment from Oscar Granda)

No doubt a great technological feat, despite the controversies that may mean the resources invested, on a planet with other emergencies. Just as a bastard vehemently inquires about their parents, this experiment represents the relentless search of humanity for his home, just so it is understandable. I hope the experiment can pay the costs to humanity in the future.