LHC Large Hadron Collider switch on

LHC or Large Hadron Collider to many name doesn’t conjure up anything particularly inspiring or interesting but nothing could further from the truth!
Based at Switzerland at CERN the particle accelerator is due for partial beam switching in August 2008, this awesome device will be some 7 times more powerful than any other particle accelerator ever made and will probe into the Higgs filed or Higgs particle or so called God particle.
A collaboration of over two thousand physicists from all corners of the globe have worked on this project which hopes to start collisions some 2 months after initial beaming, calibration and feedback from initial stages.
The 27Km (17M) circuit of superconducting magnets x 1600 in total!, which has a diameter of 3.8 meteres will focus the counter rotating beams will accelerate lead hadrons near speed of light speed then smash them together! Don’t worry its all under strict control, although there have been some musings of the possibility of creating mini black hole, albeit for picoseconds.
How quickly will the particles take per circuit?
The real science though will look at what Dr. Peter Higgs postulated and how electromagnetism and W and Z bosons interact will electromagnetism and is part of the standard model of Quantum physics, will the higgs filed exist? Well be sure to get your up to date news here