Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , the largest, the most complex and the most expensive particle accelerator on earth dubbed as the “The God Machine” for its ability to unlock the secrets of this universe is back in action after a hiccup due to an accident that occurred last September.

Amid much fanfare from the particle physicists and fears from some sections of media for an apocalypse in disguise, the LHC started its journey to unlock mysterious questions that pose the scientific community for decades. Yet due to a small soldering error in one of the cables that carry power to the LHC, there was a huge meltdown which is notoriously known as the “World’s most expensive short circuit”. It was indeed a disappointing display for the CERN engineers who built the machine for more than a decade and the scientific community around the world who were very anxiously waiting for the LHC to fire up and produce ‘Godly results’.

It took almost a year for the CERN engineers to analyse, redesign, repair and get ready for yet another kick start. Now CERN scientists have started firing protons round one small section of the collider as they prepare for its re-opening. Over the next few weeks, more and more bunches of protons will be put into the machine until, by Christmas, beams will be in full flight and can be collided. The aim of the experiment is to see the higgs-boson dubbed as the God Particle that’s said to have the secrets locked for eternity about the beginning of space and time.

Apocalypse Now ?

With a section of media and physicists deeply divided on the notion that LHC would deem us nothing but an apocalypse, and that it is capable of producing miniature black holes that can eventually eat up everything on their way sounds eerie. Another strange prediction from some physicists is that since producing Higgs-boson is against nature so the very effort in producing them itself will cause ripples in space-time that go back in time to stop the collider from creating one. But the CERN scientists deny this and they say that LHC is more controllable after the revamp this year.

Let us wait to see what’s in store for us - either an answer to all life’s key or the dead-lock to our very existence  !

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