The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 on the morning of 10th September. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. Read on here

India had quite a significant role to play in this experiment contributing both to the construction of the equipment itself and also by way of manpower (Indian teams are participating in some of the different experiments.)

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It is supposed to be the first time India is contributing so significantly to an international scientific program and is just great to hear. This should pave the way for India being more involved with more experiments around the world and for the world to include India in their experiments as partners.