The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) broke the record for the fastest Proton travel, as it sent a beam of particles at 20 times more than the speed that was expected out of the world’s biggest and largest particle accelerator. The speed at which the particles are collided with each is extremely crucial for the LHC and CERN as this will lock the phenomenon that the scientists have been waiting for, to witness the building blocks of matter.

The Large Hadron Collider was severely damaged in the year 2008 while conducting similar experiments and took almost a year of extensive repairs for its restart this month. Since the LHC became operational earlier this month, it has been functioning flawlessly and has produced some incredible results. Monday’s experiment witnessed the LHC shooting two particle beams at 1.18 trillion electron volts, thereby breaking the speed record in the process, that was previously held by the American Fermilab since 2001.

The scientists and physicists at CERN are quite excited with the advancements being made in the experiment and they are hoping to receive the desired results that would help them understand some of the most complex phenomenons of the universe such as dark matter, antimatter and super symmetry and of course the creation of the universe, that has the scientists across the globe baffled.

Via Associated Press.