Start-up date for LHC announced The particle accelerator will
attempt to recreate conditions similar to those of the universe
just after the Big Bang. August 7, 2008 Provided by CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland August 7, 2008 The Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. It is
housed in a 17-mile (27 kilometers) tunnel that runs between
Lake Geneva and the Jura mountain range. Photo by Maximilien
Brice/CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made September 10. This news
comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new
particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television
coverage of the start-up will be made available through
Eurovision. The LHC is the world's most powerful particle
accelerator, producing beams 7 times more energetic than any
previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it
reaches design performance, probably by 2010