{"id":25387,"date":"2010-03-31T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/31\/lhc-starts-collisions\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:28:08","slug":"lhc-starts-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/31\/lhc-starts-collisions\/","title":{"rendered":"LHC Starts Collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Marcy 30th &#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great day to be a particle physicist,&#8221; said CERN1 Director General Rolf Heuer. &#8220;A lot of people have waited a long time for this moment, but their patience and dedication is starting to pay dividends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/press.web.cern.ch\/press\/PressReleases\/Releases2010\/PR07.10E.html\"> read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Marcy 30th &#8230;. Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/31\/lhc-starts-collisions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LHC Starts Collisions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Bt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}