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The Large Hadron Collider WORKS!

Science - Energy

In the past few minutes, CERN has reported successful collisions at 7 TeV.

 

This is a very early and very brief announcement.  More reports will follow as the news unfolds.

According to Tweets the Large Hadron Collider is creating stable collisions at the planned energy level of 3.5TeV per beam, giving a collision energy of 7TeV.

This is far and away the highest-ever collision energy achieved by man.

Approximately one hour ago, the rated energy level was achieved, after which Physicists slowly moved the beams into a collision position. 

After this, collisions were observed to be occurring at 10:00pm AEDT.

Quoting the Twitter stream, "Nature does it all the time with cosmic rays (and with higher energy) but this is the first time this is done in Laboratory!!"

Readers may follow CERN's reports in a number of locations.

As at 10:35pm, the webcast displays a scientist showing recently captured images of the collisions on a laptop screen.

Readers are urged to view the CERN sites as soon as possible to view a very historic moment in human history.