'New era' in physics as world's biggest particle smasher cranks up

[WorldNews]

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The world's biggest particle smasher started experiments with nearly doubled energy levels Wednesday, with scientists hailing a "new era" in their bid to unlock more mysteries of the universe. The tests with collisions of 13 teraelectonvolts (TeV) came after a sweeping two-year revamp of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), used to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson -- which confers mass and is also known as the God particle. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said everything went according to plan at the giant lab, a 27-kilometre (17-mile) ring-shaped tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border.

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