Tomorrow, the Large Hadron Collider is set to fire up for the first time. The giant $10 billion particle accelerator is designed to re-create the moments just following the Big Bang. All the world will be talking about protons, atom smashing and new particles.
But University of Michigan physicists have already found a new particle using their own accelerator at the Fermilab in Illinois.
Scientists fire up the world’s largest particle collider in Switzerland, but fears about the experiment creating black holes that could devour the Earth and other planets are not realized. (updated Sept. 10)
