The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator and the recent discoverer of what appears to be the missing Higgs boson, or “God particle,” isn’t resting on its laurels. The machine completed its first collisions of protons with lead ions early Thursday morning, according to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the agency that manages the collider, both of which are located near Geneva, Switzerland.
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