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The Large Hadron Collider works! They've broken out the champagne, according to the BBC Radio 4: Big Bang site:

Continuing a tradition of long standing among accelerator physicists, a delegation from the CMS collaboration drove the 6 miles from their experiment to the control centre to deliver a bottle of bollinger, wrapped in a print out of the first particle detections, to the machine managers of the LHC - gratefully received.

Of course, no major event of cultural significance can pass without some Doctor Who connection, however tenuous. Radio 4 has obliged us with a special radio episode of Torchwood, set at CERN. You can download Torchwood: Lost Souls as an mp3 for the next week.

And, courtesy of wordweaverlynn, a very important Large Hadron Collider status update. (It made me laugh, anyway.)

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Heard that on NPR this morning. Yay!

(mental note to self to download the TW thingy while it's still available)

I'm glad there were no pranks with Heineken bottles this time around...