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Groundbreaking physics machine to recreate Big Bang conditions
By SCOTT WEINGART<br | Sep. 9, 2008The world's largest particle accelerator will conduct its inaugural test tomorrow morning, shooting protons at near-light speed around its 17-mile ring. Tomorrow afternoon, thousands of contributing international scientists will breathe a well-deserved sigh of relief. Unless of course the accelerator creates a black hole that devours the Earth, which probably won't happen. I think.
