Large Hadron Collider succesfully smashed protons

After 16 years and $10 billion—and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating—there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world’s biggest physics machine, the Large Hadron Collider, finally began to collide subatomic particles.
The $10-billion structure at Geneva collides particles at three times previous energy levels. It [...]