Atom Smasher Hiatus Sets Stage for More Discovery

Atom Smasher Hiatus Sets Stage for More Discovery

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The Large Hadron Collider will operate for two more months then shut down through 2014, allowing engineers to lay thousands more superconducting cables aimed at bringing the machine up to “full design energy.” This will vastly improve its capacity to simulate the moments after the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago.