Friday, February 13, 2009

Re-launch of the Large Hadron Collider delayed until mid-September

The resumption of the Large Hadron Collider on hold until the end of September this year. The statement was made in Geneva, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Large Hadron Collider, built in Switzerland and France, was launched on 10 September last year.

But after a few days of an accident, and at the stage of increasing tension in the electrical facility was one of the contact melting super vacuum magnets.

At repairs Collider will be spent over 26 million dollars.

The creators of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN scientists believed that the experiment would allow to reproduce in miniature "Big Bang", which many millions of years ago, the beginning of the universe, as well as new data on the processes of transformation of matter into energy.

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