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Late last week, scientists at CERN announced they would be turning the Large Hadron Collider back on. The world’s largest physics experiment broke down shortly after its first test runs in 2008 and has only been tested once since then. Unfortunately, the LHC will operate at half power for the next two years before being turned off yet again for another year’s worth of repairs.
So science lurches forward, smashing together protons in search of elusive particles needed to fill holes in equations and answer some pretty heavy-handed questions. Some expect to find the Higgs boson particle from LHC experimentation, others expect to find that we’ve been wrong about everything for a long time, this is the beauty of science. The process isn’t glamorous, it has taken 15 years and over $9 billion to build the LHC. Nor is it unanimous, but this is how we do science now. The figurative rock-star scientists of our generation are looking inward for their answers, combing through information at the microscopic level for a better understanding of our world.
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Author: Anthony Cefali
