CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator.

The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts — GREAT SCOTT!!!), surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV.

But it’s not stopping there…eventually the LHC is heading towards a universe crushing 7 TeV!!!

Next, the intensity of the beams will be increased for about a week, and then collisions to calibrate the machine will be carried out through December.

Perhaps the time travelers that are supposed to be mucking up the works are on holiday this week.

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