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Apr. 02, 2010
Collisions at the LHC
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This week, the first high-energy particle collisions took place at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, with two beams smashing into each other with an energy of 7 trillion electron volts. Happily, the fears of some critics of the work, involving the possible creation of planet-destroying black holes, appear to have been unfounded. We'll talk about the 'First Physics' from the massive experiment and what lies ahead. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Howard Gordon
Deputy Operations Program Manager
U.S. ATLAS Operations
Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Lab
Upton, New York
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