21 hours ago on Twitter, CERN posted the following on Twitter:
We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!
And with that, the Large Hardon Collider, or LHC, was born. Despite warnings by Higgs boson and many more people and organizations around the world, who claimed it would be the cause of the 2012 apocalypse, CERN launched it with a “praise”:
The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. We’ve learned from our experience, and engineered the technology that allows us to move on. That’s how progress is made.
That’s OK – to give a praise to the most advanced machine that man has built in history, but what do you mean it is better understood now and that you’ve learned from your experiences? Did the scientists and engineeres that put this together at first have no clue what they were doing at first?
