Atom-smasher sets record energy levels: CERN
The world's biggest atom-smasher has set a world record by accelerating to energy levels that had never been previously reached, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Monday. Skip related content
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"CERN?s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world?s highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning," said the organisation.
A teraelectronvolt (TeV) is equivalent to the energy level of a flying mosquito, while CERN wants to ultimately achieve maximum power of 7.0 teraelectronvolts or trillion electronvolts.
The previous world record was set by a the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron collider in 2001, when it reached 0.98 TeV.
I don't know why but everytime I see a story about the LHC I just have to read it, I think its the same twisted reason I (and many others) watch motor sports..for the crashes...
Each time I open the news report I expect to see that Geneva has been wiped off the map or that we're gonna be sucked into a black hole, now that'll be some good reading!
