The Big Bang experiment at CERN near Geneva set a world record in accelerating the highest energy particle ever achieved in a collider.
Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research say that achievement marks a major milestone in the journey to trial next year. The experiment is expected to reveal the secrets of the origin of the universe.
The twin light energy circulates in a 27km underground tunnel with a power of 1.18 trillion (TEV). This figure is far past the previous highest achievement, under 1 TEV conducted by the collider at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
The achievement of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) came 10 days after the world's largest scientific experiment was rekindled after an accident in September 2008.
"It's fantastic," said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer.
The LHC is a massive magnet, electronic and computer complex costing about US $ 10 billion underground on the French-Swiss border. This facility is also called the doomsday machine by a skeptical scientist.
The purpose of the facility was to destroy the particles along with the 7 TEV forces and create conditions a billionth of a second after the 13.7 billion years ago explosion that formed the universe and everything in it.
The data collected during the crash will be recorded and analyzed by a network of 10,000 researchers at CERN not only in France but also in about 30 countries around the world.
Scientists hope to learn what is called anti-matter, and the so-called "Higgs Boson".
However, although the first blocks injected into the LHC are current, project leaders remain cautious.
"We are continuing to take it step by step, and there's a lot to do before we start experiments in 2010. I keep champagne on ice until then," Heuer said.
Over the next few weeks, scientists will move into commissioning stages aimed at slowly increasing the intensity of the rays and resulting in better quality collision data. (this is)
