Mar 24
Things are heating up at the Large Hadron Collider, and not in a bad way this time.
CERN says that they plan to collide particles at the highest energy level so far beginning on March 30th, by circulating twin beams in the 16.8-mile tunnel at 7 tera-electron volts, or twice the current (already record-breaking) 3.5 TeV, Reuters reports.
At that rate, “it may take hours or even days to get collisions,” according to Rolf Heuer, CERN’s director-general, in the article.
Scientists hope that the multiple particle collisions will each create mini-Big Bangs, which should generate plenty of rich data for scientists to mine in the years ahead, according to the report.
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