From the CBC Science and Technology Section:

“The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said beams of protons circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volts in both directions around the 27-kilometre tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva.”

We are fired up and good to go!  I am anxiously waiting for the experiments to start now the the LHC seems to be working at full capacity and is not producing singularities that will officially be ‘very bad news’ for the dwellers on the earth.

:The extra energy in Geneva is expected to reveal even more about the unanswered questions of particle physics, such as the existence of dark energy and matter. Scientists hope also to approach on a tiny scale what happened in the first split seconds after the Big Bang, which they theorize was the creation of the universe some 14 billion years ago.”

I have recently been ‘debating’ with creationists and more hard evidence is always a good thing.  To be honest, it is not much of a contest, but can be fun; like fishing with hand grenades.

“Getting the beams to 3.5 TeV is testimony to the soundness of the LHC’s overall design, and the improvements we’ve made since the breakdown in September 2008,” said Steve Myers, CERN’s director for accelerators and technology.”

*waves pom-poms*  Go Science Go!