Last week, the world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN was restarted after the $10 billion machine suffered from a catastrophic fault in the year 2008. Now, the LHC has taken its first big step after its resurrection and has circulated a proton beam in opposite direction simultaneously.

The Large Hadron Collider had witnessed an extremely speedy restart last Friday and has been functioning at optimum levels of operation. According to Rolf Heuer (Director, European Organization for Nuclear Research),

“It went much faster than foreseen. We’re all very happy.”

However, the LHC will witness its biggest test ever, when the particle accelerator will begin the process of proton collision to give the scientists a better perspective of events that took place at the time of the creation of the universe, also known as the Big Bang.

Scientists believe that the latest division of the proton beams traveling in opposite directions could lead to proton collisions as the proton beams cross each other. But, the technicians at CERN intend to create intentional proton collisions to ensure that the machine would be ready for the grand test in the early 2010.

The scheduled 2010 tests if successful might provide the scientists with a depiction of the time, that is 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang occurred. Scientists and physicists have also staked their hopes of learning about some of the most elusive phenomenons such as dark matter, antimatter and super-symmetry after the completion of the big event of 2010.

Via Associated Press.