The most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland. The moment has been eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide for two decades.
Photos courtesy of AP
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A general view of the island SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) of the CERN Control Centre (CCC) in Prevessin, France, at the Swiss border near Geneva, where the operators prepare the commissioning of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at the European Particle Physics laboratory (CERN). The first test of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will take place on Sept. 10, 2008. The purpose of the CERN Control Centre (CCC) is to combine the control rooms of the Laboratory's eight accelerators, as well as the piloting of cryogenics and technical infrastructures. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
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