I just heard the good news last night - the Large Hadron Collider has finally reached their goal of 7 TeV per beam of energy!

But first a little background....

For the last several decades, the primary method of exploring sub-atomic particle physics has been to build a large machine that accelerates common particles, like electrons or protons, to very high energies and then smash them together inside of a special detector. The result is a mini-explosion of new particles which last for a fractio...
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