Professor Jon Butterworth of University College London heads up the UK's involvement in the Atlas detector. "This is the biggest high of my career so far," he told ZDNet.co.uk after the first successful beam circulation in the LHC, which took just under an hour to complete. "I didn't think they'd do it so quickly and smoothly."
"This is the first time [the LHC] has functioned as a single machine," Butterworth noted. He added that, although no new science as such came from Wednesday's events, the machine "shows a lot of cutting-edge technology, so in that sense it is a breakthrough".
"We'll probably be getting science out of this thing for 20 years," Butterworth said.
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Congratulations to the CERN LHC Team!
Timpraetor | 09/10/08
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Let's hope not.
tomam | 09/10/08
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Strangely enough
seanferd | 09/11/08
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Big Deal!
Scared Sh*tless | 09/10/08
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Coilliding protons is nothing new
seanferd | 09/10/08
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Doomsday machine
dasprem@... | 09/10/08
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Doomsday machine?
ProfQuill | 09/10/08
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Doomsday Machine!
seanferd | 09/12/08
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Power loss?
mgrider | 09/11/08
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That stuff is all planned
seanferd | 09/11/08
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