September 10: historical facts and curiosities

On September 10, 2008, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved its "first beam" milestone. This marked the start of operations for the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Protons circulated through its 27-kilometer underground ring near Geneva. The LHC was designed to explore fundamental physics questions, aiming to uncover the universe's basic building blocks, the origins of mass, and the nature of dark matter, pushing scientific boundaries.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, officially began operations on September 10, 2008, at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Built to explore fundamental questions in physics, it aims to recreate conditions shortly after the Big Bang. Its experiments have led to significant discoveries, most notably the Higgs boson in 2012, confirming a key component of the Standard Model of particle physics and opening new avenues for understanding the universe's most basic building blocks.